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77 It isn't hard to recall hearing versions of those arguments on the floor of the United States Senate and in the White House last year. Recycling old arguments against justice comes naturally in a society that has long embraced the ideal but not the reality of equality. If there has been a frightening consistency to the arguments made by freedom's opponents, the supporters of justice have been consistent too. For all of this century, the movement for civil and human rights has followed the program put forth by W.E.B. Dubois in 1905: "We must complain," he said. "Yes plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong -- this is the ancient unerring way to liberty, and we must follow it ...." "Next, we propose to work. These are the things that we as Black men must try to do. To press the matter of stopping the curtailment of our political rights; to urge Negroes to vote | 77 It isn't hard to recall hearing versions of those arguments on the floor of the United States Senate and in the White House last year. Recycling old arguments against justice comes naturally in a society that has long embraced the ideal but not the reality of equality. If there has been a frightening consistency to the arguments made by freedom's opponents, the supporters of justice have been consistent too. For all of this century, the movement for civil and human rights has followed the program put forth by W.E.B. Dubois in 1905: "We must complain," he said. "Yes plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong -- this is the ancient unerring way to liberty, and we must follow it ...." "Next, we propose to work. These are the things that we as Black men must try to do. To press the matter of stopping the curtailment of our political rights; to urge Negroes to vote |