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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 2
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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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