To Create a Negro Industrial Commision: To Create a Commission on the Racial Question. Hearing ... on H.R. 3228 and H.R. 5564 April 10, 11, May 7, 19241924 - 74 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 50 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
الصفحة 19 - Mr. CHAIRMAN. I am not going to take up any more of your time.
الصفحة 21 - It could be likened unto the confusion of tongues at the building of the Tower of Babel.
الصفحة 12 - One proposal is the creation of a coinmission embracing representatives of both races, to study and report on the entire subject. The proposal has real merit. I am convinced that in mutual tolerance, understanding, charity, recognition of the interdependence of the races, and the maintenance of the rights of citizenship lies the road to righteous adjustment.
الصفحة 6 - We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
الصفحة 34 - There has been suggestion, however, that seme of its difficulties might be ameliorated by a humane and enlightened consideration of it, a study of its many aspects, and an effort to formulate, if not a policy, at least a national attitude of mind calculated to bring about the most satisfactory possible adjustment of relations between the races, and of each race, to the national life.
الصفحة 34 - Somewhat related to the foregoing human problems is the race question. Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy. We face the fact that many millions of people of African descent are numbered among our population, and that in a number of states they constitute a very large proportion of the total population. It...
الصفحة 6 - The year that has elapsed since I last stood before you to fulfil my constitutional duty to give to the Congress from time to time information on the state of the Union has been so crowded with great events, great processes and great results that I cannot hope to give you an adequate picture of its transactions or of the farreaching changes which have been wrought in the life of our Nation "and of the world. You have yourselves witnessed these things, as I have. It...
الصفحة 10 - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina. Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
الصفحة 2 - ... and shall have power to send for persons and papers, administer oaths and examine and compel the attendance of witnesses, and If, in...