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The next voice you hear is that of a modern American citizen. She
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lives on our side of the Iron Curtain but she lives in the
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wrong part of town and the town is called Birmingham.
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I think that searching for my interest Meredith might like
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to end. It when in the street the
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trend we're. Doing the best they could and I think that's a shame. Fondest
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memory and maturity and to make it easy Don't let them sleep at night.
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Don't let them eat particularly if I don't play with cousinly. Gothic
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kitchen. Craig I think you haven't wanted to say this so long.
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We haven't. I'm just guessing
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and I'm just trying to. Get mine.
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In most places and these United States almost all means of communication are owned
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and operated by a white man. The processes of law and law
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enforcement even the right of free assembly in some places is reserved
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for whites only. The purpose of this program is to inform, to
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enable those people who do not know or perhaps even care to understand a little
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more of what is going on around them. Well history is being made and it
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sounds like this.
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If struck, don't strike back. Nonviolent group which means
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no violence in the slights form sure a hit. Try to control your natural
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reflex emotions. Remember when you are arrested, we
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are not encouraging people to go limp. Just as this might
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increase the charges against you from a trespass charge to a
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charge of resisting arrest. You're under arrest, you're under arrest.
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I think they should keep on arresting them that the Colored people are
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more criminally minded and more. I'm sorry
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the more turberculosis we find and there are more disease the
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white people as well as an average. There are some good color people,
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but the average colored person is like an animal.
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I just don't think it's right, let the colored have thier places like they always had and let the whites live like they lived, I don't think it's right that trend for civilization like Indians. I don't think the colored.
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I don't think the colored
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down south want this it's just that it's up north.
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They are either being paid by a governor there or somthing. I don't know. not a hand but a stone up
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They are either being paid by a governor there or somthing I don't know. not a hand but a stone up
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to set us free. After being fingerprinted.
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What happened then I posted bail and was released.
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Can you tell me Dr. Blake [Blake, Eugene Carson] why you as chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian
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Church and the other clergyman came here today?
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Well, the churches have long pronounced. And, they've said it ever since the New
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Testament was written that were for a non segregated church and a non surrogate at society.
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But it's been mostly talk,. And during this year of 1963, it's clear that
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this crisis is a national crisis and that the pattern the segregated
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pattern of American life needs to be broken. Therefore my own church,
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as well as the National Council of Churches, have approved
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commissions, new commissions on religion and race, to work with other denominations and
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the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish synagogue Council of America to try to put
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behind this desegregation effort the moral and religious
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forces of the nation. I am only a symbol of what I hope will be the
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new attitude of ordinary white Christians. The Lord will concor all. There is a strong
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religious fervor running through the negro's search for
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equality. The older established churches have found themselves drawn
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into the conflict. Too late to offer their own leadership to the Negro community.
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The negroes have their own leaders. And, it is significant that so many of them
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are ministers. Though many criticisms can be leveled at the churches, they
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have all come to realize they must move from observer to participant.
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Love can not be legislated but it can be taught.
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And it can be learned. The older churches can take comfort in the
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fact that many of the slogans and the ideals were invented
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and kept alive by
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Christians.
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Our Father who are In heaven.
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Our Father who are In heaven.
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Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Hallowed
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be thy name. Thy kingdom come
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to.
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to.
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All
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that is the issue.
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Certainly that is the issue for Christians.
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There is a left, right and center into all things. Men are forever
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divided by the very forces that seek to unite them. Christianity is not unique
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in that respect. The quest for understanding God's will
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is as old as monotheism. Christians are committed to seek it.
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And having found it to accept it. Yet even the new man in
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Christ is still a man and subject to error.
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Ladies and gentlemen and fellow clans people. It is indeed a
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great privilege to have the opportunity once again to me and
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play the true light, the courage and race of people as you see
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assembled here this evening.
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Now you and I as white citizens and believers in the Christian
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religion, we
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realize that the principils that was set forth for our forefathers cannot
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succeed and stand up to the test. By buying down
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the concessions our demands. Some of the
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atheists.
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So-called.
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Ministers other nigger race or any other group here in Birmingham
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A year or
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so I personally think that
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Martin Luther King along with the attorney general of the United States
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has did more to create unrest and create this country in a
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state of Comando that Castro is doing in Cuba.
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Wanted
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not.
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Ladies and Gentelman, let me tell you what we need in this country.
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We need to go back to the Old Time Religion time and the old time
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clan time.
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Just a few years ago.
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20 years ago, when the state of Alabama heard Martin Luther King was a
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running and a holloring and a gracing he would not have gotten 20 feet across state line.
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That is
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a point of view. In many parts of these United States, it is a majority
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opinion. Here now is Martin Luther King.
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We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
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We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate
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into physical violence. Again and again we must
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rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with
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soulful. The marvelous new militancy
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which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to
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distrust of all white people.
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For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today.
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Have come to realize their destiny is part of what our destiny.
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Sometime in the not too distant future each of us in one
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way or another will be compelled to examine our hearts our minds and
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our souls and to arrive at our own opinion.
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A consensus is soft. Yes or no. Love
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or Hate. Accept or deny. Continue.
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Or desist. Segregation is a fact of our
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national life. Opportunity is unequal.
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Even though men are born equal, and are said to be equal in the eyes of
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God and of the law. Each man gains and loses ground from the
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day he is born. God did not give every
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man the ability to run one mile in four minutes, but
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some men can. The question of equality or
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of civil rights is not who can run the fastest. But
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does every man who wishes to run, have the right to
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enter the contest.
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If they call, you in go on in if the superintendent go on in and tell them that
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I learned in your school system that
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our nation was created under God and dedicated to the
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principle that all men are created equal. That your teachers taught
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us that all citizens have the same rights
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and that they were guaranteed them by the Constitution. And, we believed it because the white folk told us so.
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principle that all men are created equal. That your teachers taught
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us that all citizens have the same rights
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And look them dead in the eye as you tell them that.
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I think that one of the things that needs to be said is that
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Negroes are no longer waiting for white people to solve their problems
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for them. After all these years of wrongs which have not been corrected,
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that Negro people are beginning to feel that they have to resolve their own problem and set the
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pace themselves. This is a vacuum, this vacuum of race relations,
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which the church has left. I don't think that the Muslim group
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is providing the real answer to the problem any more than I feel the
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Klan or the White Citizens Council is providing an answer to
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the problem. I think that the Christians have the answer to the problem in terms of
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love and unity and reconciliation. The Christian church has just
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been so long implementing this responsibility which I feel
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belongs to us.
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That was the Rev. Dr. Milton A. Galamison. Pastor of Brooklyn's
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2300 member Siloam Presbyterian Church in New
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York.
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Here is the Rev. Dr. Edler Hawkins [Hawkins, Edler G.] addressing the last General Assembly
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of the United Presbyterian Church.
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Those who counseled wait and later only confirm the words of the jurist
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who said a justice to long delayed is justice denied and
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freedom is so precious. That no one who has achieved his freedom
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has the right to set a delayed timetable for another man's freedom.
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Some of us are not asking the church to fight this battle that is within the
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racial community for us. We know that the church has not risen to this
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present moment but we hope that we can help people to see the difference between an
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institution that has lacked. The courage of its true witness the difference
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between this and a great faith. That sits in judgment
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upon the institution and still calls upon it to discover that
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courage. That is the real measure of its faith.
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God bless every one of you. We certainly wish to thank all the granddragons for coming
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the distance that they did to
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be with us and have pledged your support with us of cause we didn't have any doubt about
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it. The Klan is just now beginning to rise. They think it was big in the
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20s. Well you've heard of the roaring 20s. Let's make it a roaring 60s.
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I'll ask the minister if he will come forward and he's going to dismiss us as
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we look to God in prayer this time.
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I want you to know that I'm from the state of Florida. And Florida has certainly
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been praying and hoping that things in Alabama will be
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shipshape very shortly. Heavenly father this
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hour we're grateful grateful that we are white people and have one
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thing in common. That those who are our enemys do
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not. And that is prayer and Communion with our Lord and Savior Jesus
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Christ. We know that when the devil invades the churches
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when our pastors and preachers in our pulpits turn their
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back on the Bible. And preach for selfish gain. The
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Bible has the answer. And we know it at this hour.
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These things cannot prevail because they are their
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followers. We pray as only as we know how this time we
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just hope that the people are beat.
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The white race. Your people. Will realize.
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That their strength lies in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
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Guide us now and direct us in all things that are honorable, for it's all in the precious name of
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Jesus our Lord and Savior. Amen. Amen.
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So listen to us thy children our faces dark with
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doubt are made a mockery in thy Sanctuary.
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With uplifted hands. We front by heaven. Oh God. Crying
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beseech thee to hear us. Good Lord.
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Surely out to opt up quite.
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A pale bloodless heartless thing much whisper speak
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call great God for thy silence is like terror.
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To our hearts. For the church. Not to speak.
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For the Church not to act this kind of silence. Is
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terror. To the hearts of those of us who being
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negroes. Were yet born into the life of the church. And who will
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die in it.
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And we hope. We might be able to add die.
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for it. The program to which you are listening was prepared by the Division
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of radio and television of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
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Wherever this program is heard. It is presented under the auspices of your
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local ministerial association or council of churches. A
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council of Churches is just what the name implies. In
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the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. There are
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more than 30 Protestant and orthodox communions with a total membership of more than
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30 million Americans. A local Council of Churches.
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Such as in your city. May represent perhaps only four
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or five of co-operating denominations. And which may not
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comprise the Protestant majority in the community. The
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voices that you've been hearing were taken from many hours of tape
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recorded both north and south. Pro and con black and white.
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The next voice you hear. Will be that of Martin Luther King.
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Once again addressing the over 200000 people that had marched on the nation's
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capitol and heard him speak in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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This is another part of what he said.
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I still have a dream. It is a dream
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deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream
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that one day. This nation will rise up.
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And live out the true meaning of its creed.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
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created equal.
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A dream.
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That one day on the red hills of Georgia.
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Sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
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will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
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I have a dream. That one day.
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Even the state of Mississippi a state sweltering with the.
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Heat of injustice sweltering
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with the heat of oppression be transformed into an oasis
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of freedom and justice.
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I have a dream.
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My four little children will one day live in a
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nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of
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their character.
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I am a dream to be.
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I have a dream that one day
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down.
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In Alabama with its vicious racists. With its
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governor. Having his lips dripping with the words of into position and
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nullification. One day right there in Alabama. Little black
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boys and black girls. Will be able to join hands with little white boys and white
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girls as sisters and brothers.
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I have a dream
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just
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maybe the day when I. Got.
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To.
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Be able to sing with new meaning My country tis of thee
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sweet land of liberty of thee I sing. Land where my
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fathers died land of the Pilgrims Pride.
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From every mountainside let freedom ring of America's to be a
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great nation this must become true.
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Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
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Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee
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let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi
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from.
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every mountain side. Let freedom ring and when this happens
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to black men and.
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White men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and Catholics will be
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able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual
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Free at last. Free at last.
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Thank God almighty. We are free at last. national
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crisis which may lead to all
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kinds of violence and even revolution if
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we do not decide.
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To throw our persons and our influence
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into changing the segregated pattern of too much
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of American life.
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You're listening to the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake stated clerk.
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Of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the people who are
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preventing this nation know. And this Christian solutions are not
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essentially the governor for buses and the governor Wallaces away
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off in Arkansas or Alabama.
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The responsible people are we white
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Christians.
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Who have isolated our bodies from the realities of most cities by
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largely living in the suburbs or. By. Door Man and high rise
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apartments. Frankly the Christian Church in America doesn't look
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much like a Christian church as far as race is concerned.
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Mostly we look like religious clubs for our own kinds of people.
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The religious holy embroidery on a secular culture.
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Which is essentially more and more fearful and more and more selfish.
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The wealthy and more affluent we become.
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What then can you do.
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Write your senators your congressmen right today tell them that
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you believe that civil rights are a moral matter. And that you want good legislation
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passed. This effort will cost you 15 cents and an hour's time
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to write good letters.
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And this is a vital action by people like you and me in 50
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states begin
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to demonstrate is the second thing you can do.
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Let there be no segregated marches ever again for this
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cause. Join the NAACP and
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those of you can make a whopping big contribution to its legal defense fund.
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You're unwilling to give them give to the National Council of church and earmark the funds for its commission
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on religion and race. What else can you do beside writing letters and
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joining organizations and supporting them.
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Well you can make it your project where you work to see that
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jobs are open to Negroes who are qualified and that your business will
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train unqualified negroes the same way you've been training
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and upgrading presently on qualified white people.
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And if you don't work but are a stockholder. OK right. The management
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and tell management or owner. That you want your company to be a leader.
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In and enlightened employment policies as to race. Now you may begin to
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lose a bit of your popularity if you really take this seriously.
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But you must begin each one of you wherever you have any
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influence at all. I say though that the reason people
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like you and me should stand with our negro brethren in their
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effort to achieve equality.
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Is that if we do not.
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We shall reveal ourselves at last as hypocrites and
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we shall fail in our day to witness to Jesus Christ
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whom so easily we proclaim to be the savior of
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the world.
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So.
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We
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he
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may be
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There is a gentlemen one of the great state of Alabama our good plant faithful also.
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Dear God bless your governor. Oh Carter also
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the Fire Department for all of that during the war.
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What do you think.
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If God's truth is to march on. We must all decide for ourselves just
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exactly what God's truth is.
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God bless him. Little Connor. Martin
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Luther King. God bless the white people.
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God bless the black people or. God bless all
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mankind.
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There are moderate voices. That were not heard on this program.
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But the moderate voices have not yet established any middle ground on
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which a compromise can be sought and found.
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The choice is yours. God's truth will march
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only as far. As Christians. Are prepared to take it.
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The.
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More.
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This program was produced by the United Presbyterian Church in the USA.
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Special materials used through the courtesy of W R V or the
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FM station of the Riverside Church. And radio station w and
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E.W.. Of the city of New York. Directed by Nancy Carter. The
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program was written and narrated. By Richard
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good
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E.W.. Of the city of New York. Directed by Nancy Carter. The
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program was written and narrated. By Richard
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Title: God bless - whom? :
Subtitle: radio documentary on religion and race.
Description: Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Goode, Richard. (narrator)
Carter, Nancy. (director)
Date: 1963
Publisher: Division of Radio and Television, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Place: New York
Type of resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Genre: sound recordings
radio programs
Form: audiotapes
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips ; 1/4 in.
Language: English
Subject names: Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topics: Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: Alabama.
North and Central America--United States--Alabama
Rights status: IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Physical location: TAPE 761; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related item: God bless - whom? [sound recording] : radio documentary on religion and race.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumbe...
Identifier (local): tape761_GodBlessWhom
PID (Persistent Identifier): islandora:116487

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