Johnson Warns On Race Riots
(N Z.P A. Reuter —Copyright)
INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.
President Johnson warned today that the United States “cannot abide” the racial riots that have torn New York and Cleveland in the last week.
In a speech prepared for delivery after his arrival in Indianapolis on a four-state tour, the President said the nation could abide civil protest which could improve the lives of those protesting. “But it cannot abide civil violence,” he said. “Riots in the streets do not bring about lasting reforms. They tear at the very fabric
of the community. They set neighbour against neighbour and create walls of mistrust and fear between them.” The President said riots made reform more difficult by turning away the people who could support reform. Riots started a chain reaction whose consequences always fell most heavily on those who began them. “The ballot box, the neighbourhood committees, the political and civil rights organisations are the means by which Americans express their resentment against intolerable conditions,” Mr Johnson said.
“They are designed to reform society, not rip it apart.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 13
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