Madam President. many years ago Justice Brandeis said with prophetic vision: No peace which Is lasting can ever come until the Nations. great and small. accept the democratic principle that there is and shall be no supernation. to rise through subjection of others. and the truth that each people has In it something of peculiar value which it can contribute to the civilization for which we are all striving. That great pronouncement holds good to this day. and in particular. as the distinguished Senator from New York has just pointed out. it applies to the liberalizing provisions of our proposed HumphreyLehman bill. It holds good as applied to our Negro citizens who. under present immigration laws. have been discriminated against in a base fashion. a discrimination which our new bill proposes to rectify. Madam President. that great pronouncement will hold good 100 years from now. It will continue to be a permanent challenge to our efforts and to the efforts of our sons and daughters and to their descendents.
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