attack, we have seen the painfully slow process by which
they go one by one only after long and costly struggles on
for
the part of the minority group and/those white citizens
who understand that, this is a mutual problem.
Let us -then not wait in Maryland. There is an
ominous chorus of strident voices in the wings of
history today, it is not large but it is a reckless and
a destructive group. It repudiates democracy. It comes
out of desperation and despair. It argues that faith
in law is useless, it argues that we cannot be one
state for one nation, it says we must be divided by faith
and ancestry.
They have lost faith in the power of our
Constitution and an expressed declaration in the state's
Constitution and the state's commitment will help us
substitute the subpoena for the Molotov Cocktail.
It will help us substitute the affirmative
action of prompt and progressive state legislature and
executive leadership for ashes of burned-out buildings.
We have a duty to erect a bulwark in our
Constitution for all the world to see against intolerance