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Hays, Brooks

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Speech reflecting on recent Congressional election defeat -13- situation. Southerners are proud and sensitive people who want to work out their destiny within a minimum of external interference. While we cannot deny a national concern for equal justice in all parts of the country, we can ask for patience and tolerance while we try to work out a solution. Extremists on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line must be silenced. There is hope for the restoration of a climate of rational deliberation, if those who inflame passions are met with determined resistance. The issue of states rights can be resolved by a recognition that both the state governments and the Federal Government should practice what Madison called "reciprocal forbearance." Above all, we must help eliminate the causes of hatred and prejudice. We can believe that we are right and the other fellow is wrong without hating every man we think persists in his error. Not many people really hate, but fear is associated with hate, and it is this spirit of fear that has been ignobly exploited by some politicians. The only antidote for fear is understanding. What can be done to carry forward the work of the moderates? We need to re-establish the bridges of understanding between the races and work within traditional Southern patterns which were once helping close the gap. Interracial meetings must be held at the Federal, state, and local level, so that
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1958
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