President Johnson, the honorary president of Brotherhood Week — which is now being observed throughout the nation — linked the event with “the unfinished task of the Great Society” in an appeal for rededication to America’s “traditional ideals of tolerance, compassion and respect for individual dignity. “
He said the event was observed during the week of Washington’s birthday because the First President’s ideals “still serve and guide us ‘to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no tolerance; ” He added that “social and economic injustice remained “the personal and moral responsibility of every citizen.”
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