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will. There is no sensible anlternative."

In the coalition view "America must pursue several major goals between now and the future. It must try to:

"Achieve full employment with a high level of economic growth - all of our other policy goals depend upon it.

"Provide all citizens with an equal opportunity to participate in American society and in the shaping of governmental decisions affecting their lives.

"Guarantee that no American will go without basic necessities: food, shelter, health care, a healthy environment, personal safety, and an adequate income.

"Meet our obligations to assist in the ecomonic development of the world's lesser developed nations.

"These are the gaols. We can move a long way toward them by 1976."*

But in addition to the Coalition's major goals, and their definition of "Paralysis of Will" as the greatest of our ills, there is another goal much more desirable and another ill much more horrible. One ^That ill is racism and the goal its containment and eradication.

Everyone knows, our ought to know, that there is one consuming problem that makes life in New York's Harlem, Cleveland's Hough, Los Angeles'Watts or Atlanta's Vine City or any of America's other urban Atticas - where some

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*Unpublished draft - Statement on National Priorities,
The National Urban Coalition, January 18, 1971