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Moving Closer to Enlightenment
to Eliminate Fear of Each Other'
stroyed people. Until recently,
By JOHN F. PIVAL
President, WXYZ; BiOtherhood however, there has never been
Week Radio and TV Chairman the certain danger of hatred
annihilating the world, and the
race that inhabits it.
This awesome fact points up
another—awesome and yet simple.
With nuclear weapons with
which to implement its emo-
tions, this world can no longer
afford hate. I think most of us
agree that, as a practical matter,
it is far better to light a candle
than to curse the darkness. For
that reason, we, at WXYZ, feel
it a great privilege to have the
means of vast communication
which we can place in the serv-
ice of our community and our
country.
If, by communicating, we can
help to isolate the prime cause
of hatred—fear—and overcome
it in the only way it can be
overcome, by informing the fear-
ful, we will rejoice in the op-
portunity that has been ours.
During Brotherhood Week, it
is my profound hope that all of
us will move measurably closer
to the enlightenment that will
bring the total elimination of
fear of each other. Then, per-
haps, we can sight the great day
when our colors, antecedents,
and beliefs, both political and
JOHN F. PIVAL
religious, will no longer separate
intense as it is now. But, never us.
has hatred borne the potential
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price tag that it bears today.
EDITORIAL
Throughout the ages, hatred
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has consumed individuals and de-
The age we live in is the first
in which global crisis is ever-
present, and in which hatred has
become virtually a way of life.
To paraphrase, never before has
hatred threatened so 'many with
so much. '
Of course, hatred is not new.
It has long been, perhaps, as
malignant, as universal, and as
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YOU'VE GOT TO BE TAUGHT TO HATE
By RABBI JULIUS MARK
President, Synagogue
Council of America
"With each new spasm of
.
violence, the principles of
Brotherhood Week loom more
and more as a global necessity
than a pious hope. To learn to
live together in mutual respect
and acceptances is today a cate-
gorical and moral imperative
the alternative to which is total
devastation. By the force of
events and the powers of de-
struction that man possesses we
are obliged to seek new insights
into the Biblical injunction:
`. . . Thou shalt not take ven-
geance, nor bear any grudge,
but thou shalt love thy neigh-
bor as thyself.' (Leviticus 19:18)
"The world teeters precari-
ously on the brink of disaster.
Move and countermove, violence
and counter-violence—in Europe
in Asia, in Africa, in Latin
America — have made of the
world a giant chess game in
which any move, unintelligently
and irresponsibly made, may
propel the world into the final
flawing holocaust. Here in our
own blessed land forces on the
extreme right and left would
set man against man, nation
against nation; they would vio-
late and 'destroy, if they could,
the sacred heritage of freedom
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and justice that have marked
our great nation since its birth.
"But if the world stands on
the brink of annihilation, it also
stands on the threshold of op-
portunity.
Let this observance of Broth-
erhood Week serve as reminder
of the greatness to which man-
kind can aspire or as a warning
of the grim alternative that
threatens.
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Herein lie the seeds of destruction. , Hate, ignorance and bigotry
sap the strength of our country and -stunt the growth of all
Americans.
Help To Stamp Out Prejudice
Give our country a chance to grow through Brotherhood, to ful-
fill our Democratic heritage—"One nation, under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all."
BROTHERHOOD WEEK
February 18-25, 1962
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