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...failed to report our vigorous opposition to the flouting of the law by Dr. Blake. It is our contention that he is casting aside his Presbyterian creed and doctrine. Those who question Blake's action are not opponents of the Negro...
...began with a prepared statement. "For generations," he said, "Americans have prided themselves on being a people with democratic ideals, a people who pay no attention to a man's race, creed or color. That very phrase has become a truism. But it is a truism with a fundamental defect; it has not been true . . . White people of whatever kind-even prostitutes, narcotics pushers, Communists or bank robbers-are welcome at establishments which will not admit certain of our federal judges, ambassadors and countless members of our armed forces." "You Tell Me." Then the Commerce Committee members began asking...
Perhaps the truest measure of the U.S. Peace Corps-of its creed, its ideals, its constructive naivete and its basic worth-was put by a Peace Corpsman who died in the line of duty. Just before he was killed in a plane crash in Colombia while returning to his Peace Corps mission from a short holiday, David Crozier, 23, of West Plains, Mo., wrote to his parents: "Should it come to it, I had rather give my life trying to help someone than to give my life looking down a gun barrel at them...
...Association would discriminate against Chinese or Arabs, but only against the white race. The spokesman for the Association, Mr. Armah, said, "The terms African and Afro-American cover many races including Arabs and persons of partial European descent." This means there is no discrimination on of color or creed: There is no discrimination on the basis of color or creed: Armah pointed out that Africans and Afro-Americans include "people who are more white than black"; the Association is not a religious organization...
...series of a three articles by undergraduates. These pieces, by Christian Ohiri, Carla Marceau, and "Jane Wilson," though not badly written, carry with them a vague bit of embarrassment. We learn very little from such declamations as "How can a very small and insignificant soul break from a creed, which, if it does nothing else, at least proclaims consistently and vehemently and unwaveringly that it alone possess the one complete truth in the universe? I am torn." Montaigne's remark that "We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish out real liberty...