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...offered an immediate three-point program: 1) the church must "insist that there is a God Who is the final authority over life"; 2) develop "international life ... by strengthening her missions work"; 3) "find a new pattern of interracial relationships. . . . Men and women of all races are one family in Christ...
...only the privileged few can breathe its rarefied atmosphere, and consequently it is to deny a great part of its significance. Perhaps the most important "liberal" subjects are the more mundane social sciences, provided always that they are taught not as a series of unrelated facts, but as a pattern of thought-provoking ideas...
Furthermore, I have been discussing the development of American society, not the structure of other nations. After the war we shall have to learn how to keep the peace by cooperation with other great countries which have very different cultural patterns and different histories from our own. But we shall not promote the cause of international understanding by confusing our own internal problems with the great debt we owe to China, to Great Britain, and to Russia for their magnificent fight against our common enemies. If we are to live in a world of peace we must accept great responsibilities...
Some 268,000 of you have changed jobs in the past four years, but the overall pattern of your jobs is still pretty much the same. Of the 641,000 of you who are in business, 454,000 are executives-and among you are about half the officers and directors of practically every well-known corporation in the U.S. Seventy-seven thousand of you are educators, 41,000 lawyers, 49,000 doctors and dentists (that's about one in every four), and 22,000 clergymen (that's about one in every six). You hold 82,000 jobs...
This was an old pattern: last September the farm bloc came perilously close to forcing through Congress an inflationary bill that would have handed a few top-drawer farmers billions of dollars at the consumers' expense...