Attorney General Tom Clark, speaking at Memorial ## exercises in Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre, today decried the racial tensions at divide mankind and called for strengthening of the Bill of Rights “through daily comition and practice of its principles for the protection of every American citi##.”“We must be constantly alert to stamp out anti democratic tendencies,” Clark aid. “We must watch for dangerous symptoms such as the abandonment of the concept and practice of equal justice for all, the placing of some groups in a perfected class citizenship at the expense of other groups. “When we express racial prejudice, we are lacking in love for mankind. We are concerning ourselves with the things that divide, not with those things that unite.”
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