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ee ee ad 4 ted Highlander Folk School for immediate release Lionteagle, Tennessee slonteagle, Tennessee . . « November 20, 1950. . ."Our Christmas bells could be freedom bells if we dared include all minorities in our circle of brother- hood," uyles Horton told a conference of church leaders at the Highlander Folk School, VLIGS "Freedom bells ringing in the cabins of Negro sharecroppera, ringing for eager minded students with opportunities limited by accident of birth, and freedom bells echoing in distant lands could fill the troubled world with thoughts of peace on earth and good will toward man," he said. “Highlander's democratic program is based on the brotherhood of man. Democracy to us means that membership in the human family entitles all to the freedom of thought and religion, to equal rights to a livelihood, education end health; to equal opportunity to participate in the cultural life of the worsnunaty and to equal access to public services," the religious leaders were wonda "ie hold that democracy is inactive unless workers are given a full vaice in industry through unions; or farmeré are given a voice in the market place through cooperatives; or where freedom of thought and discussion is lsnited; and that democracy is outlawed by legally entrenched dis crimination "The times call for an affirmative program, based on a positive goal," uu ovri0n, "An amy of democracy deeply rooted in the lives, struggles and Lreditions of the American people must be created, By broadening the scope o. enocracy to inch velationship, the army of democracy would be so vast and so determined that nothing undemocratic could stand in its path." ane CAATION CONTAINED ol~ SU - 147 aa UNCLASSIFIED \ eee ry fow be. | at > odie iL Ato tc BY See se ENCLOSURE #