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St. Petersburg Times Editorials
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"The policy of our paper is very simple - merely to tell the truth"
Paul Poynter, publisher, 1912-1950
Editoriad Page 14-A Phone 894-1111 Wednesday, June 12. 1963
Gone With The Wind
No thoughtful American, listen-
risy or loss of the vision on which
ing last evening to President Ken-
it all began. We in America are
nedy's simple but eloquent remind-
no different.
er of what our nation stands for
We speak of freedom; yet as
and must be, can take refuge in
President Kennedy said, "This na-
the belief that the government
tion
will not be free until all
alone, or our system of laws, can
its citizens are free.'
make right a hundred years of
We speak of a government of
shame.
laws, not men; yet law based on
Each of us, as individuals, is
inequity is unjust and a betrayal
involved in a moral issue: The
of those who have given their
right of one-tenth of our fellow cit-
lives to keep our torch of liberty
izens to enjoy equal opportunities,
aflame.
equal treatment, equal benefits -
We speak of salient tyrannies
"the full and free life which all
over the mind of man; yet we go
of us want" for ourselves and our
into the fray with our own hands
children.
unclean, our own consciences
MOST AMERICANS, we think,
heavy with the burden of a dilem-
have long felt that way - have
ma we have always known must
known in their hearts that the
one day be solved.
dikes of segregation, of inequality,
Fortunately, we live in Amer-
would one day crumble beneath an
ica; and when Americans decide
irrepressible tide of fairness.
something must be done they do it.
Most Americans have not been
White or Negro, the responsible
deceived, we think, by the dwin-
American recognizes now, we
dling group of zealots who have
think, that the time is no longer
tried by threats of vioience and
"coming": It's here.
obstruction to hold back the on-
With grace and understand-
coming tide.
ing, as President Keanedy said,
Birmingham was the last bar-
we can conquer this moment of
rier, its dogs and fire boses the
trouble; and we can rise from
final, losing attempt to turn his-
our effort freed of the terrible
tory around. And Birmingham
burden we have carried so loag.
made yesterday's events in Tusca-
loosa merely an anti-climax, with
History will rush along, and a
Governor Wallace a stick figure in
cleaner, better America will go
his long-awaited *hour upon the
forward with it. Behind us, free at
stage.
last of the injustice we so long
Civilizations rise because of a
have hoped could be lifted from
dynamic in the hearts of men;
our hearts, we leave only an un-
they fall when that dynamic dis-
happy yesterday, now gone with
integrates in indulgence or hypoc-
the wind.
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