 | D. W. Meinig - 2010 - 483 pages
...democratic ideals. As Wendell Wilkie, recent Republican presidential candidate, said to the NAACP, "our very proclamations of what we are fighting for have rendered our own inequities self-evident." In 1947 the United Nations Charter comprehensively affirmed basic human rights. In postwar America... | |
 | James H. Madison - 1992 - 220 pages
...an alien imperialism — a smug racial superiority, a willingness to exploit an unprotected people. Our very proclamations of what we are fighting for...inequities self-evident. When we talk of freedom and op81 portunity for all nations, the increasing paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can... | |
 | John D. Skrentny - 1996 - 332 pages
...some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. Our very proclamations of what we are for have rendered our own inequities self-evident....talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.28 Though the actual... | |
 | Paul Gordon Lauren - 2003 - 418 pages
...that threaten it from without has made some of its faihtres to function at home glaringly apparent. Our very proclamations of what we are fighting for...talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.1-' Because these... | |
 | Petra Goedde, Associate Professor of History Petra Goedde - 2003 - 316 pages
...chairman Wendell Willkie addressed the NAACP at its annual conference in July 1942 he admitted that "our very proclamations of what we are fighting for...talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."42 Those verbal... | |
 | Dora Apel - 2004 - 284 pages
...1940, expressed the rising sentiment against mob law when he remarked following World War II, "Our proclamations of what we are fighting for have rendered...talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."2 White racists,... | |
 | Maggi M. Morehouse - 2006 - 276 pages
...Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate, directly addressed race relations in one campaign speech: "Our very proclamations of what we are fighting for...talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored." Black Americans... | |
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Our very proclamations of what we are fighting for have rendered our own inequities self-evident. When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. 