Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
President Calls For The Elimination OF
Discrimination Segregation Because
OF Ancestry, Religion, Race and Color

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defender of the rights and equal
tiles OF all Americans. And again
l mean all Americans.
As Americans, we believe that
every man should be free to live
his life as he wishes. He should
be limited only by his responsib-
ility to his fellow countrymen, If
this freedom is to be more than
a dream, each man must De guar
anteed equality of opportunity.
The only limit to an Americans
achievement should be his ability,
his industry and his character.
The rewards for his effort should
be determined only by these tru-
ly relevant qualities.
Our immediate task is to re
move the last remnants of the
barriers which stand between mil
lions of our citizens and their
birthright. There is no justificat--
ion reson for discrimination becau-
Sc of ancestry, or religion, or
race, or color.
We must not tolerate such linn
itations on the freedom of any
of our people and on their en-
joyment of the basic rights which
every citizen in truly democra-
tic society must possess,
Every man should have the ri
ght to a decent home, the right to
an education the right to adequate
medical care, the right to a wor-
thwhile job, the right to an equal
share in the making of public
decisions through the ballot, and
the right to fair trial in a fair
court.
We must insure that these RI
ghts - on equal terms - are en-
joyed by every citizen.
To these principles 1 pledge my
full and continued support.
Many of our people still suffer
the indignity the narrowing fear
If intimidation, and( l regret
to say, the threat of physical in
jury and mob violence. The pre-
JUDGE and intolerance in which
these evils are rooted still exist.
The conscience of our nation, and
the legal machinery which enfor-
ces it, have not yet secured to
each citizen full freedo mfrom
fear.
We cannot wait another decade
or another generation to remedy
these evils. We must work, as
never before, to secure them now.
The aftermath of war and the de-
sire to keep faith with our Nat
ion historic principles make the
need pressing one.
THE support of desperate pop
ulations Of battle-revaged countr-
les must be won for the free way
of life. We must have them as
allies in our continuing struggle
for the peaceful solution of the
worlds problems. Freedom is not
an easy lesson to teach, nor an
easy cause to sell, to peoples be
set by every kind of privation.
They may surrender to the false
security offered so temtingly by
totalitarian regimes unless we can
prove the superiority of democracy.
Our case for democracy should
be as strong as we can make
it. It should rest on practical evil
dence that we have been able to
putour own house I'm order.
For these compelling reasons, we
can no longer afford the luxury
of leisurely attack upon prejud-
ice and discrimination. There is
much that state and local govern
ments can do in providing posit-
i've safeguards for civil rights.
But we cannot any longer, await
the growth of a will to action in
the slowest state or the most
backward community.
Our national government must
show the way.
This is difficult and complex
undertaking. Federal laws and adj
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