To Secure These Rights

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Excerpt from To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights The report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights is grounded in several fundamental assumptions about the American people. We believe that they cherish freedom and want to see it protected and extended. We believe that they have the courage to overcome the prejudices and fears which have brought the scourge of disunity to so much of the world. We believe that they have the intelligence to come to enlightened opinions, after calm and mature consideration of a national problem. Civil rights is such a national problem. The world is today confused by differing and often contradictory uses of the language in which free men express their ideals. It is our hope that our Report will help in the continuing rededication of our people to the historic principles which have made us great. We also hope that it will help other nations to judge our capacity for vigorous self-criticism and improvement through the normal processes of democracy. We have done our honest best to deal with long-standing and perplexing questions. We ask only a fair hearing, and a serious discussion of our proposals in the nation's cities, towns, and hamlets. Action to implement our report can only come with the consent of the people expressed through their leaders. We believe that their decisions will be consistent with the ancient tenets of our faith: all men are brothers, and each man is his brother's keeper. All of the members of the Committee join me in expressing our thanks to the distinguished publishing house of Simon and Schuster for making our Report widely available. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.