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The Canadian concert on the program Doc horses will not be heard this afternoon yesterday station at this time presents the ceremonies attending the observance of interfaith day and we take you now to Central Park. Good afternoon from the mall in Central Park yesterday station brings you the ceremonies attending the observance interface day among the guests here and speakers this afternoon our mayor Vincent I'm telling Terry Senator Evan and lives Benny her president of the Interfaith Council Robert A Carol Dr William Johnson and many other dignitaries the next voice you hear will be that of a meal K.L. its chairman of the Program Committee who will introduce the speakers and events on this after major program and Mr Ellis ladies and gentleman but I still have some songs by Miss miles on them. A little too plain jolly and singing the national anthems. All the C.N.N. You know who the old the in the borough the poor the of America the of the of the of. The of. The of. The earth the free. World. The Earth. The Earth. The the the the. The earth the earth. The Earth. The Earth. The Earth. Then you may now be burning rioting in the kitchen Well the liver. At Salt. Evelyn thought about a lot of the universe with gratitude where your family were the old go to help believing it is the brethren to dwell together in unity. We testify that whatever our origin and whatever our approach to the problems of being we are nonetheless of one with the and one with the other. Let go of our family our country and all the nations of the earth or in turn though people of that time great great from the way we have but one father and one God has made us all let's be prevailed among the nations and the hearts of all returned unto thee in amity of warding violence and hatred and cubing only Brotherhood and the Amen. And the. Dr Danton the thing which guest of honor lady and gentleman. I want to welcome you on a Central Park Mall on occasion of the celebration of innovative day the skies may be grey but it more than a poem thought by the warmth of the spirit of those of you are present we had a very excellent program and I am hopeful that the weather will remain limited up I had used a year to lop the entire program I have Leon are presenting to you the chairman of the board of directors of the innovate more than the Honorable John Mayer out of the attorney general who will in turn it is but chairman of a day that brought. If you don't stop years ago a man was made to supervise the education and training of the most cosmopolitan population in the world. Finally select. In every way and. We have a career a man whose life has been devoted to training children to become citizens who believe and practice the principles of American democracy it's now gives me great pleasure in presenting. This. Frank and. Now America. As. A. Korea and I thought of trying it against the. Expanded act and it is fitting and proper that we. Give concrete and living expression. Those ideals of equality which are inseparable from the spirit of the mocker. We are today our fundamental conviction that we are brothers under the fatherhood of God. The common understanding which will. Appreciate. In our effort to bring. Up freedom but despite the convictions which have brought us together today we may be prone to forget. Great good well. Not even here in the land of our. Let us face reality we have not as a nation the conduct of our daily lives acknowledge the freedom and equality of all about killing right still and religious discrimination are still poisoning our lives and without a man. In spite of that however we have no reason to doubt the ultimate outcome of the effort to establish and maintain human dignity and understanding great progress has already been made we are united in that in the faith movement and in similar movements throughout the country in our conviction that we must continue that path that educating young and old to recognize that every man and it is brother to keep. Here in the city of Najaf millions of people of every race and creed are living and working together and feed and security and mutual respect in our public schools eight hundred ninety five thousand boys and over thirty eight thousand feet carrying that talent and good will. But we have not completely thout our interracial problem up paramount importance is the fact that we are conscious of that and we are working throughout schools to eliminate prejudice to give up people's experiences in democratic living and to help them to appreciate one another as human beings really at the plate movement and other thermal of movement many of our citizens are working with on southeast evoked our state anti-discrimination law. Legislation forbidding racial or religious discrimination in the admission policies of the colleges and universities of the state our own city by a series double service that these are all kinds of both signs of progress they are the concrete evidence of a community determination to translate our ideals into action but we must not consider the love of our problem and be the objective of the two alone are of legislation or of special probed this love is the cohesive element of the tired it is the prop up function of every human the HOF it must become one of President Obama's Act of one product one's way of life it is on top of that leap possible to talk tolerance and to be infallible as it is possible to pay lip service to any ideal it could be the deeply satisfying duty of every individual to make the love of his problem and the glowing spenda of good light. Prejudice is a better thing for the prejudiced as well as for the object of a type of the individual who learns how to work with a fellow man and to grant him the integrity which he claims from solve it indeed I am typing man on national strength had been built on ideals which we commonly share and for which Americans have sacrificed their lives people the various races and religions have sought refuge here and have contributed their efforts to fashion a way of life which can unite us all in brotherhood. Believe. Under God we can look to our. People. Whether in. We can work. Through. Thank you. Thank you. To present. The motion picture industry ever conferred upon America. Not only with. Personality but with. And I'm. I. And. I. And I. And. For many years our late president gaped at her fate isn't piling upward and holds all the emotion. Consecrated in. The ideals of entertain and made them dynamic to the end of it all while in this great city of New York would live together in unity. And mutual respect I know that all of you join with me and a fervent apparation. Meyer Jacobs Please join internal rest and happiness with the Lord from the president of the United States I am happy to convey to the members of interface and you friend the following method Robert I present the interface both the blessings of Divine Providence. Generously but upon our beloved country our greatest blessing is the place we Americans have in one another we are united people of diverse product and I. And I did bring unable to face competent hold the evil forces that have been unleashed in the world may those who are meeting to observe enter paid. Free know their devotion to the principles of Providence and mutual respect as we grow in our understanding of these principles our nation will be stronger in the eyes of man and more worthy in the eyes of God that of Harry S. Truman Bank of. Our. Present. At this time I'd like to present to you Eddie Millard will thing the Lord's Prayer accompanied by babbling. The. Earth. But. But you're here. I am sure. In expressing my heart. To those who are engaged in promoting. I. Would like to present to you. To the. Seeing that he is love of heaven and. Not in temples made with men. Neither is worshipped. As though he needed anything seeing he's given to all the light and breath and all things. And made of one blood. All nations of man to dwell on the face of the earth. And perhaps the time of the times before the point. Habitation. That they should see a lot. Happier they might be laughing and crying. Oh your problem every one of the audience. And. I'm being. All right you got to but I now have presented to you the famous novelist and humanitarian granny her. Thank you Mary and I can make our income apparent I'm not. Planning her. Just around I've made our. Ladies and gentlemen a part of the character who have ventured into the Arctic regions today I agree with the predecessor The Probably you are here because you are from the meddling interacted in the fundamentals that are embedded in this occasion but whether you just happen to have been passing by all weather strolling for us on the afternoon. To get out let the last couple. I'm glad you are right and I know that those of you who have around the coffee are compensated particularly since we have. The facts of life with the back of glam up in the form of the Swanson and now with the arrival of Marilyn ourselves. And now in bed three syllabic with the meaning of this day is practically one of the important keys to the meaning of peace and that's why I want to thank you you are here and I congratulate you on products that action which have brought you here for the considerations that are under way today now I want to discuss with you my promise to bring a new interface not in return I have been your own lines of negative news AG about the perils of which are taking by within our own front yard so to speak but I want to talk about interface from it all of the ladies and gentlemen you hear in front of me and behind me out of so you are now. Becoming follow ups and your pain and then your captain yourself and your living room in your kitchen and you are cool and without the kind of compulsion that you bring to the consideration here today we might just as well from up the spot where you know and I know we don't do now make no mistake about it but you don't live Sharrock day began in the home. It begins in the kind of home you create you turn around and you put Broadway now and there on the very edge of the pot I can almost see my house from here and then I walked over here through Central Park language people were converging from all possible that they told this sounds like a spectacle going well they were coming to their attention. And it occurred to me and I saw the problem and no crying were represented converging spoke some of these prompts a moment and instantly I'm well we are after all a grand young laboratory. The kind of propaganda. That is going on in the homes and I see beyond being a moment of the skyline of New York is that tremendously important I mean the homemade prejudice that is so welcome generated when the in a warm environment of the home parents so on walking away from their children out of the broom paradise of democracy by teaching them prejudiced against people who happen to be different than themselves the any Won't in child league grow you can become Joe I'm being innocent lives the children. I'm going to go names for you Italian and Catholic. From their parents and from why did you call on you you people in front of me who outlook keepers of that's so important the tension the whole to bear in mind that you are the breeding ground of everything that is near and dear and important to this country of ours during these crises time and I want to express my appreciation to the and the very organization that is sponsoring this day and I want to say servant may that under its offices and other I hope for an interfaith organization will become less and less in our Congress and replace become something taken for granted and that we demand in the name of human dignity Thank you. Thank you Senator. Ladies and gentlemen. The next speaker. Is one of those sterile work friends of the interfaith movement. Or many years has occupied an important position in public life in this community. Yes been president of our city council Yes been a member of the battle directors of the interfaith movement in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight in a phase movement confront the highest honor within its powers that were sending to him and our world for conspicuous service in the cause of goodwill and understanding between people of peoples of different faiths races and religions they didn't gentleman I have a great article sent to you the dynamic acting mayor of the city of New Iraq then turns out in public health. Lalage. Ladies and gentlemen I am indeed happy degreed. Annual and. That has become. Our. One on which. The rest. Of the world as well that. We. Have respect. And Harmony and a new refight. London is. What the United Nations. Think the world. Renowned them every night as a place where men of all are then. Without spirit. Who have given your support to the in the movement. Of birth that have given that the remount your. Freedom and. It has not always rammed through when. That man of your pump. Have been able to. Lead without antagonists. In the. Right. And. The other. Emigrate from every corner of the world. Go and read civilization. What religious freedom and. Damn the really meant men and women. Whose previous lives have been wrecked and that really breathing the air freedom in America. And love. In so many other things. That it was OK first to really affect this new found freedom from. The people who went for a walk. Not only for land and water but. Are right. On with this. World of goodwill the entire world the word. And I name it on the. Come close that relates let that in a down way. Greater understanding among. During. The first. Act Thank you. I know. The other. The the. Many legislative achievement. Is the senior senator from the. I have the honor to present you they read. English. Ladies and gentlemen. In my very very remarkable I want you to know. Deeply I appreciate privilege of being able to hear on the very end firing program today Never than a time in the life of the brain. Or of any other nation and. Not likely. Never been a time when it needed. We live in an age when wars are real and rumors of even greater. Problem. For the Navy and. For the goal of the band think about long. Period betterment and it's great that a. Recognition that the real fight we fight. On and that this group battlefield is art. And. Our weapon. God. And. And a fervent reaffirmation of our belief in the sacredness of the right and they get they of the individual it is a great tribute to the that and all of you who are here today that every a lot of us realizes the importance of that battle the great tribute to the local service of the members of the interfaith movement both through their dedication and on the LP Spirit have provided the spark with that word that gathering that every day a lot with an abiding faith in God and a love for it hearted fellow man is an art died there is none among us over one hour with these as ideal because they are as much a part of our heritage as is the right the three of them late which make possible but that meeting at the head with the titles of God lives that never are reliant day in their being the labored knowing greatest art that Ikeda do opposing that God let that down time and wonder if they are not trying in a wilderness not indifferent among their fellows who agree but do nothing. Not lose out. Our job is not an easy one. But we must keep up the throttle in the part of knowledge that it is the day to day government has which add up to the final victory what hope do we hold out for the oppressed peoples of the world freedom from famine disease and in particular reading these goals are not nothing. It does no good when a people throw off the yoke of one up rather only to replace it with another it does no good that the markets are all effected are nailed up Rakhal man the spirit is a five dollar euro name than the capital their body we must meet great men to appear with the lessons of fate we must meet propped up till till a day where the ideal of hope we must do the thing that the international level we must build on at the national level and both important of all we must do them at the level of our individual lives all of binding doctrines in the world three that's the national level our meaning with them though if they are not echoed in the act of our name and that he is an active positive thing it is more than the ABT and the Lord it is the arnest and never out there minded people who preserve and wrote back the rights of individuals every wire brick God bless the braised our creed or color or national origin. Leave no room for prejudice or in thousand and eight loving society. There is only a Roman body wallop A and read let them find when that as they are understood by a God fearing and God loving people. Where much these days of Apple development of new weapons the urgent need for the building up of our armed forces and then this that they argued that founded cured during the great dark total military rank these things we must know they are survival and they are a lot the military is not the only brunt in need of Marie and part there is a need board lengthening the character will run through its pension and home or abroad and fear every last May not only pays then God can rates die our order go back to pay out the man the most in that order and not very hard on we know what we have owed We have old God left map and all the evils but at the end it either they appear in the map don't match the of them or back to them or communism we mock the LIKE YOUR of what we are far world that event after Abdullah got in the way but didn't Larry and departed mean those guys and dolls standing still we go forward. Hours of a generation and then them which if they are a are called the Great that we do a lot of the world the both the light leadership and in a new era the door Left would be your fail all of humanity most of that material wealth Five fact all know how all alone will not stop all of the right. A lot is needed although it's a great model and spiritual strength that must feel real Let's not have it the high ideal is not enough we cannot have the other more than we are valid are willing to do we can not spell our world now own with prejudice and one don't want it there at home we cannot handle other Nathan Hauritz brain from religious persecution while we calibrate our Ghanaian ate up than America we cannot preach power on and on allow good friend in a field in our lives the eyes of an Arab and their whole world around me and I don't think we have a clue all responsibility of providing leadership and good example the mirror of world opinion will reap But back to up a they no more noble than. We breed than to be cannot hope to achieve that alone we need the strength but can't be young and the old military of fame but most of all we need the help of Almighty God. We want for our daughters of character all right without compromising and surrendering our separate believe we must let the rest drag out faster light was a prominent our religion and not blocking it from. Groups like the interfaith movement find the way there are motivated like did I landmark along the road up rather know than the them out man. We. I didn't. Like to read a method to you. I want to be an. Active member of. The net that leave. Iraq constitution bedrock the power. Needed. Freedom of speech and freedom of worship in. Men and women from every. Plane at Qom to the. Greatest exemplar of representative democracy when that democracy has been. Quick black and white rich and poor. But Americans they were. And will win. You for. President. Of every. Word. Movement. Called. Thank you. I'm not. Really into. After it. And. That I will. Again. I will daily deal with every man. And political relation only on the basis of the individual but I will love a. Couple people I really don't care about any individual I will not to know rumor no slander against anything in my conduct I will consecrate myself I will by and day by day the fact. Of the dignity of man human equality. And human brotherhood. You know that I hope you will. That. I'm not. A. Member of the. Happy combination of. Weather present. And. Records of. The Honorable Edward. It was rather President Clinton that I look forward to the barrel is of the day all of a exemplify the progress which we have a home a leper to develop a likeable plan on the bottom of man and a big uphill and I hate complex with what that well I saw but it was a long a time I hope to be with you today got the thoughts of Bob free in the great moment was home to do and about it still hope to do well you know we have accomplished much all we have at least made our local community conscious A lot may happen to poison to spread hate and bigotry it is true that much about the threat of calls by that there some people have operate by hold but but but poisoned the method is justified and I did another forty seven when I was a terrible thing is that you will die alone as I stated it is a desire albeit the faith will bend to God America and our fellow man again Cakebread all toward bigots bring our That tolerance all the way all the things but what's wrong because of this oil is what it won't and when the only game Polian that follows I can that is us through the day that all that I do probably all rather most of you know I am about mob the Roman Catholic right out of this from that point of like the old I have told firing like but by a fellow band so I have brought you a part of the holy top called red at the Met on the clock on the app the Pentecost Sunday August twentieth nineteen other things. That taken from the gospel of faith look. Kept the pen. Twenty three the body of evidence and other follow. The Bible. But that are beyond that the what. I credit you there have been many propagating web long thing what do you think another toric do here want you here and never heard of. It happened that that was a lawyer rolled up trying to put in the pet my theory what must I do to inherit eternal life. That their water they're better at Redmond along was diluting other. Than Thou Southwell them all. With the love of the whole heart. And I hold though my home. And I hold mine I like Neighbor Island I felt the higher than could write. It told him do this and now shout find light body to prove it go play out and who is by name a little girl gave him his answer a man and was on his way down from zero to look good. Fell in with Brother police took him and me and went off leaving him half dead. And I freeze all the going down by the same road for him there. On the other side and idly by. And also Paris on the other side but I quite. I was out it probably for him an appetite it was up to him and bound up his road for a girl and lying in the lead and followed him apart. And brought him to winning where he took him. Out to meet. With the innkeeper and take care of him at on my way home I will give the whatever they paying what the cost. Now. But labor. RATHER And he said that they are here. And there without likewise that gospel right right is the story of the good American Look ere the men were wounded by rather proud. God to love our neighbor in fact they go back to. The true path by their labor in the war the old long. As the through to the spirit that was a good example of a Catholic actor. But you're proud my good. Cooperate and. Enjoy very much. Commission Against Discrimination. Public career which has been. To the people of. Commissioner Robert a member of the state. Mr Chairman Ladies and gentlemen. This is an inspiring demonstration of democracy in action I think we may all be quite sure that the Moscow papers will never report this event this afternoon because this demonstration is our answer to their propaganda claim that we are a nation divided and a country which thrives on hatred and discrimination democracy and Brotherhood are synonymous it is important for us to remember this and also not to forget the circumstances which led to the founding of the. Twelve years ago it wasn't a very long and 1930's where this city was a particular target for a frenzied propaganda by Hitler and his cohorts. Under the leadership of. Why is an assistant district attorney on a Thomas the jury has the Plec great pleasure and a great pleasure it was of helping to send to jail where staging hysterical Alec at Madison Square Garden and other parts of the city to advance bigotry and discord it ruined Q As we have since learned that a nation hating and divided is easy prey for totalitarian conquest the Frenchie frenzied bigotry prevalent in nine hundred thirty eight is pointed up by the story of a shopkeeper who. Placed the side in his window which read as follows I hate the Jews I am a one hundred percent American whereupon a competitive storekeeper not to be outdone placed a sign in his window and the sign read I hate everybody I am a better America it took a war for survival on two major fronts to overcome the horror of that sort of thinking on battlefields throughout the world our soldiers answered hatred by offering the supreme sacrifice of their lives and on the battlefield at home the interfaith movement answered hatred. Understanding and setting an example of brotherhood and goodwill on the battlefields of Korea today our soldiers and our magnificent Marines are again fighting.