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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 2

115 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Sep 20, 1956 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Cardinal Francis Spellman · 113 pages OCR'd
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~5- right to receive an adequate education, the right to live where they desire and their means enable them to live and to receive thenormal courtesies befitting their dignity as human beings. They are denied these rights for only one reason - the color of their skin. How lamentable that some Americaris who would die together today, will not eat together, will not travel together, will not live together! This is an outrage which America cannot tolerate. Doors cannot continue to close in the faces of Negroes as they search for jobs, as they strive for membership in some unions, as they seek the chance for specialized job training. Surely the spirit of justice and equality which lives in the very heart of our great nation wil! not permit these inequities to continue. People today are restless and impatient with the painfully slow progress that has been made in solving this problem of racism. The tradition of America is to get things done promptly and efficiently. Her tradition is also to get them done peacefully. {n other lands, and unfortunately also in our own, violence has often been the companion of change. That is not the right way in America. That is not the American way. We must accomplish what has to be done working together, as one people with o common ideal, working calmly but with determination to progress and to succeed in
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