and injustice in any form.
Each year -thousands of visitors come to our
state and see our historic shrines and visit our Naval
Academy and they observe our conduct with the hope of
finding examples of how democracy can work and we have a
solemn opportunity to confer our nation's commitment to
the liberty, equality and dignity of mankind.
And finally, there is a book which has just been
published by a great religious leader, winner of the Nobel
Peace Prize, who commits again the colored citizens of
this nation to non-violence. But he talks of the
ambivalence in our state and our nation which gives all of
us great concern, and there is a long and intellectual
recognition that racial discrimination and segregation is
wrong by all of us but the emotional tie to the system is
so deep that it is hard to develop the will to prune it
out.
Thomas Jefferson had the same ambivalence. He
was a brilliant political leader and as r. King points
out, ho came close to the philosopher kirq that Plato
dreamed about centuries ago hut ho as also a child of