DIVISION OF NATION
Johnson Urges Resistance (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. President Johnson has urged “self - respecting” Americans to reject the counsel of those who sought the division of the nation in connexion with the civil rights struggle. He told the National Citizen’s Committee for Community Relations that the time had come to “cease telling ourselves —and the world—that the destiny and fate of this nation will be decided by street rioters and night-rid-ers.” “The spotlight of the world is upon us,” Mr Johnson told the committee, an advisory body charged with helping to seek voluntary compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. “Self-respecting Americans will not —and must not—permit the destiny and direction of their nation to fall today into the hands of those who seek our division. ... “The question before our nation is not how whites will vote or Negroes will vote next November. The question is how we shall work together and succeed for a hundred Novembers to come.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 11
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DIVISION OF NATION
Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 11
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