Racial and religious bigotry menaces the freedom of every American, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, declared here, assailing anti-democratic elements in this country whose activities he described as alien to American thought and doctrine. Sen. Morse spoke at the annual dinner launching the 1947 Chicago campaign of the Joint Defense Appeal for $600,000.
Senator Morse hit at concealed forms of discrimination such as may be found in business and educational circles. These phases of anti-democratic behaviour mar the pattern of American standards and can be more damaging to racial minorities than an open attack, he declared. He also warned that “you can’t maintain political democracy, if you don’t have economic democracy.”
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