Without tolerance there can be no respect for the worth of the human person who was created in the divine image. Wherever intolerance has asserted itself, it has brought in its wake tides of misery and suffering. In our own time we were the tragic witnesses of the butchery of millions of men, women and children because of the religious and racial bigotry of the Nazis. Intolerance creates injustice and nullifies the doctrines and principles of all great religions which teach that God is the Father of us all. This leads us to yet another ingredient which should be taken along on the road of freedom, namely cooperation.
Cooperation is the keynote to peace.
The United Nations came into being to bring such a cooperative effort about. It is unfortunate that regional and ideological blocks have arisen which mitigate against the basic ideals of the U.N. Charter and have put a stop to the cooperative drive for universal emancipation and peace. It is the hope and prayer of a world that has witnessed the loss of freedom in many lands, and that has lived through a gruesome, degrading and ugly experience of war, that man will soon be moved by the deep and sacred impulses in his heart to make freedom a viral factor in human society. To us iii this land, particularly to the youth of America, the appeal is to preserve the noblest elements of our heritage of freedom. We should be careful in what we say and do about those who are different from us, generous in our thoughts and deeds toward those whose pigmentation of the skin is different from ours, or whose parents or grandparents have a different place of origin from those of our own, or who worship God in a different manner or place.