Fourth Draft, Address of President Harry S. Truman Before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
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Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt, Distinguished Guests, Ladies & Gentlemen:
I am happy to be present at the closing session of the Thirty-
Eighth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People. The occasion of meeting with you here at the Lincoln
Memorial affords me the opportunity to congratulate the Association upon
its effective work for the improvement of our democractic processes.
I should like to talk to you briefly about civil rights and
human freedom. It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning
point in the long history of our country's efforts to guarantee freedom
and equality to all our citizens. Recent events in the United States
and abroad have made us realize that it is more important today than
ever before to insure that all Americans enjoy these rights, When Isay
all americans. Iarean all assericans.
The civil rights laws written in the early years of our republic,
and the traditions which have been built upon them, are precious to us.
Those laws were drawn up with the memory still fresh in men's minds of
the tyranny of en absentee government. They were written to protect the
citizen against any possible tyrannical act by the new government in
this country.
But we cannot be content with a civil liberties program which
emphasizes only the need of .protection against the possibility of tyranny
by the Government.
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