Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Randolph Stresses Theme
Of a Moral Revolution

when they were introduced en-
masse by Mr.. Randolph.
spontaneously, a chant began
and spread: Pass the bill! Pass
the bill! Pass the bill"
Nor were the legislators left
to think this was a passing
mood, an instant's emotion,
they were witnessing.
This sweltering summer Of
the Negroes legitimate discon-
tent" said Martin Luther King,
will not pass until there is an
invigorating autumn of freedom
and equality. E. Those who
hope that the Negro needed to
blow off steam and will now
be content will have a rude
awakening If the Nation re-
turns to business as usual,
There will be neither rest
nor tranquility in America I'M
til the Negro is granted his
citizenship rights"
1t was lobbying on a monu-
mental scale in what DR.. Ralph
Bunche of the United Nations,
a platform guest, called "the
finest and truest tradition Of
American democracy"
Anyone who cannot under
stand the significance Of your
presence here" he told the dem
onstrators, "is blind and deaf"
To People, Too
But yesterdays rally had an
added dimension - q message
that was directed not Just to
Washington officials but to the
people of the Nation.
Mr.. Randolph made the point
in his keynote. I'VE are not a
pressure group" he said. 1--WE
are not a mob. We are the adj
vance guard of a massive, moral
revolution"
The profoundest moments -
and, perhaps, the most lasting
significance of the march -
came in the efforts by leaders
of both races to express their
understanding of what the rev.
olution requires.
There were the voices of three
white religious leaders-speak-
ing with troubled conscience
to the white majority Of Amer
leans.
The Rev. Eugene Carson
Blake, head of the Unite d
Presbyterian Church in the
U. s. A. - I'VE come - late,
late we come - in the fear of
God that moved Thomas JEFF
ferson of Virginia once to say.
I tremble for my country when
I reflect that God is just"
Matthew Amman, executive
director of the National Catholic
Conference for Interracial JUS
tice - I'VE have tolerated a
great blind spot. We have per-
mitted evil racial discrimina-
ton to remain within us too
long. The wind of the
racial revolution has finally
bent the reeds of the conscience
of our people. Yet many bend
before the wind Of justice in
confusion; the balance yet lies
in the silent and fearful Amer
ican."
Jewish View Expressed
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, presi-
dent of the American Jewish
Congress and q refugee from
Hitler's Germany - II learned
there is an evil worse than big
otry, or hatred or intolerance.
1t is Indifference. America
must not become a Nation of
onlookers. Americans must not
remain silent to injustice"
And above all, there were the
voices of the Negro leaders
counseling their people never to
abandon their fight, never to
lose hope that the freedom they
seek will soon be theirs.
The message from Jam e S
Farmer of CORE, jailed In Lou
isiana and refusing to accept
bail in order to attend the rail-
ly - Some of us may die, but
our war Is for life, not for
death, and we will not stop our
demand for freedom now. We
will not slow down. go"
DR.. King, at the close Of the
rally, sent the demonstrators
back to their communities with
the plea that I'VE not seek to
satisfy our thirst for freedom
by drinking from the cup Of
bitterness and hatred"
DR.. King said:
II still have a dream, a
dream deeply rooted in the
American dream-one day this
Nation will rise up and live up
to its redemptive creed. We
hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are
equal
II have a dream that one
day in Alabama little black
boys and little black girls will
be able to 60 hand-in-hand
together with little white boys
and little white girls as brothers