Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century IssuesHarper, 1962 - 376 pages Companion volume to "American forum - speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900". American speeches on twentieth-century issues. |
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... equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable . No man who car- ries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service ...
... equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable . No man who car- ries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service ...
Page 217
... equality , that animated our forefathers in establishing upon pioneer soil a kind of government and a kind of political institution they recognized to be new and revolutionary in the history of governments upon this earth . No ; the ...
... equality , that animated our forefathers in establishing upon pioneer soil a kind of government and a kind of political institution they recognized to be new and revolutionary in the history of governments upon this earth . No ; the ...
Page 327
... equality . Unquestionably Negro education has advanced since the days of Booker T. Wash- ington , but by and large it still falls far short of that afforded to whites . In the South , where the majority of the nation's Negro children go ...
... equality . Unquestionably Negro education has advanced since the days of Booker T. Wash- ington , but by and large it still falls far short of that afforded to whites . In the South , where the majority of the nation's Negro children go ...
Contents
THE PROGRESSIVE | 3 |
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE | 51 |
MODERNISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION | 87 |
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