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-4- housing and bringing new ond imaginative solutions may be helpful to perfect the programs so weil under way. | When we speak of all races, creeds and colors we touch upon something which is on everyone's mind today, and about which it is impossible to remain silent on such an occasion as this - and that is the crying need for full justice and equality for our feliow American citizens who are Negroes. The inequities inflicted upon them have been a festering problem in our society for many decades. There is simply no reason ~ there never was and there never can be - why the color of a man’s rtunities in a society that boasts of freedom. The Negro is asked to give as much as any other mony for his country. Hehas a right to receive back from his country in equal measure. On my trips over mony years to visit our soldier-sons all over the world, | have seen White and Negro soldiers serving our country, suffering the same hardships and confronting the same hazards of war. Yet contrary to every Christian principle and in downright defiance of the glorious American ideal of equal justice for all, some of those same Americans who risked ther lives for America - for you and for me - are denied the right to vote, the