August 20, 1967: Sargent Shriver said Unity is ‘built by all
Americans’
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In a recent tweet – on June 22, 2015, Maria Shriver @mariashriver, noted that her father, (Westminster,
Carroll County, Md. native son) Sargent Shriver, said “My father said Unity is ‘built
by all Americans.’ Sadly, words still relevant @RSargentShriver: http://eepurl.com/bq43Ir”
On August 20, 1967, Mr. Shriver said: “"We have a
statue of liberty on the east coast given to us by a foreign community. But we
need a statue of unity built by all Americans, for all Americans -- in every
American community. Today, our nation is not united. This country is in trouble
because too many Americans prefer not to know each other. Not to care about
each other. […] Our country cannot go on like this."
This may be found on the Sargent
Shriver Peace Institute website, http://www.sargentshriver.org/speech-article/address-to-the-negro-shriners-convention.
According to the website, “Sargent Shriver did not shy away
from speaking about racism throughout his career. This address at the black
Shriner convention in August of 1967, given in the middle of a long, tumultuous
summer of rioting throughout the country, demonstrates his frankness and his
concern on the topic of racial inequality…”
He said this in an “Address to the Negro Shriners Convention,
CLEVELAND, OH.
He also said: “It is keeping America divided into ghettos--not
the city slums, but ghettos of the mind where we seal off parts of democracy
that don't suit us, where we box off our obligations to justice and shut out
our commitments to fairness. These ghettos of the mind are more damaging to
America than the ghettos of the city…”
Indeed, Sargent Shriver did not shy away from speaking about racism
throughout his career. Read the entire speech here: http://sargentshriver.org/speech-article/address-to-the-negro-shriners-convention
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