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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1970
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-2- programs which are aimed at the attainment of our goals. Being active, by just coming to a meeting once a month, does not sufficiently satisfy the needs of the organization, although, it does help. It is a recognized fact, that all of us are not able to fulfill the same roles, but if there were no diversity, there would be no need for "people" and their "active participation".When it comes to doing something about "man's inhumanity to man" there is a role for each and every one of us. In this, you do have a choice... but there is no choice, for you or me, when it comes to deciding where we'll be when America goes up or down... all of us, Black, Brown, red and White... will go up or down together. This election year for the NAACP, too. It is up to you, the membership, and those of you who are truly concerned, to decide just which direction the only working civil rights organization, in this community, is going to take. Working for equal opportunity for ALL men of ALL races, colors and creeds and regardless of their national origin... is far from being a smooth ride on the road to glory... however, none of us are or will be free, until every last person in this country is guaranteed all of the rights of the Constitution!!! The part you choose to play, can make a difference in "when" and how this will happen. Committed to peaceful and legal means of changing the existing inequalities...we need your help, just as this country needs outs. WORDS TO THINK ABOUT ... "We find ourselves now in a period unlike any in this century. We are witnessing judicial and law enforcement systems. as well as other official agencies, intimidating minority community leadership, suppressing news media, impeding collective bargaining and equating dissent with treason. Our very existence depends upon confronting the official and quasi-official repression initiated and accelerated by men like (Spiro) Agnew and (john) Mitchell..." - Earl Craig, Minneapolis college professor, defeated by U.S. former Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey in the primary race for U.S Senate. "The oppressed of this land will not let peace prevail until they are given their rightful power or until they are destroyed by it. " - Julian Bond, on violence as a theme for the struggle between the "haves" and the "have not's" in the 1970's " In spite of a lot of talk, integration is a long way off, and people would do better to admit it. When Black Americans can hurt White Americans the way whites have hurt Blacks then we can talk about equality." -Reverend Gerald R. Hoskins, Pastor of Houston's South Park Community Parish and leader of a movement to make Christ relevant to Blacks, on spiritual reciprocity. "Whites are fearful in the face of scarcity, that the Blacks will take their homes and jobs. Blacks are in a rage because they do not have homes and jobs. A thriving economy will solve both problems. If full employment is made available, whites need not fear and Blacks will not rage. If we build a million new homes and Blacks can buy them, there'll be no Black rage and White fear." - Bayard Rustin, executive Director of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, on Black rage and White fear. The empowering power of the vote.. "This is a fact recognized equally by our oppressors in the society, and for this very reason the most vigorous efforts have been made to deny us this University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- programs which are aimed at the attainment of our goals. Being active, by just coming to a meeting once a month, does not sufficiently satisfy the needs of the organization, although, it does help. It is a recognized fact, that all of us are not able to fulfill the same roles, but if there were no diversity, there would be no need for "people" and their "active participation".When it comes to doing something about "man's inhumanity to man" there is a role for each and every one of us. In this, you do have a choice... but there is no choice, for you or me, when it comes to deciding where we'll be when America goes up or down... all of us, Black, Brown, red and White... will go up or down together. This election year for the NAACP, too. It is up to you, the membership, and those of you who are truly concerned, to decide just which direction the only working civil rights organization, in this community, is going to take. Working for equal opportunity for ALL men of ALL races, colors and creeds and regardless of their national origin... is far from being a smooth ride on the road to glory... however, none of us are or will be free, until every last person in this country is guaranteed all of the rights of the Constitution!!! The part you choose to play, can make a difference in "when" and how this will happen. Committed to peaceful and legal means of changing the existing inequalities...we need your help, just as this country needs outs. WORDS TO THINK ABOUT ... "We find ourselves now in a period unlike any in this century. We are witnessing judicial and law enforcement systems. as well as other official agencies, intimidating minority community leadership, suppressing news media, impeding collective bargaining and equating dissent with treason. Our very existence depends upon confronting the official and quasi-official repression initiated and accelerated by men like (Spiro) Agnew and (john) Mitchell..." - Earl Craig, Minneapolis college professor, defeated by U.S. former Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey in the primary race for U.S Senate. "The oppressed of this land will not let peace prevail until they are given their rightful power or until they are destroyed by it. " - Julian Bond, on violence as a theme for the struggle between the "haves" and the "have not's" in the 1970's " In spite of a lot of talk, integration is a long way off, and people would do better to admit it. When Black Americans can hurt White Americans the way whites have hurt Blacks then we can talk about equality." -Reverend Gerald R. Hoskins, Pastor of Houston's South Park Community Parish and leader of a movement to make Christ relevant to Blacks, on spiritual reciprocity. "Whites are fearful in the face of scarcity, that the Blacks will take their homes and jobs. Blacks are in a rage because they do not have homes and jobs. A thriving economy will solve both problems. If full employment is made available, whites need not fear and Blacks will not rage. If we build a million new homes and Blacks can buy them, there'll be no Black rage and White fear." - Bayard Rustin, executive Director of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, on Black rage and White fear. The empowering power of the vote.. "This is a fact recognized equally by our oppressors in the society, and for this very reason the most vigorous efforts have been made to deny us this University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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