The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-05-25
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One of the most thought-provoking addresses deliv
cred May IL at the Prayer Pilgrimage, at the Lincoln
Memorial, Washington, D. c.. that of Congress
readers with the hope that will set them to thinking
Today kneel at the feet of the Great Emanci-
pator in commemoraon of the Supreme Courts decision
against segregation, atte ship slowly edgng its way
across the vast Atlantic Ocean retracng the of the
Pilgrim Fathers to America $50 years ago. those
brave heroes looked to great country sanctuary
for the oppressed who participate in this pilgrimage
today seek relief from the injustice of unequal laws which
beset people.
Nowhere on the face of the earth, than in this
worlds greatest Democratic nation is there greater
need to restore confidence in the principles of Democracy
Nowhere the face of this earth there greater need
to reawaken Christian concepts within the hearts of
so that they that under God there but
law for all the people.
Yet despite these needs nowhere the face of this
earth does prosecuted people have formidable
to meet its enemy We have the legal mandate
of the most exalted judicial body of worlds greatest
democratic nation We have the growing demands Of the
moral consciousness of people of rich religious heritage
We have, within battle forces the resoute determi
nation of the NAACP and expanding number of other
organizations motivated by righteous instincts We have
new dynamic and inspired Christian leadership, wise
and enduring in faith occupying place between
ditlonal leaders and the masses of people.
But is needed if the light of liberty is to burn
In our own land and its enlighten the world. The
President of the United States must raise the curtain
silence which the White House step out on the
stage and the principal performer in the drama
relations in the cradle of democracy speak out
defense of law and order and against the denial of c
that he has the right convictions What kind
OF political pressures then lessen the courage of
man. who cannot constutionally seek the same office
again. that he shuns the haowed duty to uphold the great
principles of the nation he leads?
The Senate of the United States is currently the prn-
cpa source of leadership in this respect the Democratic
Party The Senate also the biggest obstacle
which must travel toward the achievement Of civil
rights legislation The House of Representatives will pass
near the end of May the bill strengthening right to vote
protection for Negroes. Lyndon Johnson the Majority
Leader of the United States Senate chooses not to try
stop the diator tactics of the Judiciary Committee
ed by Eastand, which has jurisdiction over Civil Rights
legislation will be his responsibility explain his mac
uon to those affected and concerned If he doesn't explain
it adequately lot of good Democrats going suffer
in the next election, and and protest votes
against Dxecrats will be cast for Republicans by South
ern Negroes
Add this prediction to the announced pan this week
by Eisenhower and the Republican National Chairman to
candidates for principal office in the South and
marked change in the political complexion
of this nation on state and federal level
believe in the psychological power of prayer but
do not believe that the of the freedoms seek
will rain automatically from the Heavens Even the child
of Israel had to suffer and work their way to the
Promised Land Those of you therefore who here
today and do nothing else but pray might we'll have
stayed home and knelt at the family altar The basic les
learned