The Freedom Budget leaves no room for discrimination in any form because its programs are addressed to all who need more opportunity and improved Incomes and living standards. not to just some of them. Let me interject a word here to those who say that Negroes are asking just for another handout and are refusing to help themselves. From the end of the 19th Century up to the last generation. the United States absorbed and provided economic opportunity for millions and tens of millions of Immigrants. These people were usually uneducated and a good many could not speak English. Yet the economy could profitably employ them. They had nothing but their hard work to offer and they labored long hours. often in miserable sweatshops and unsafe mines. But the industrial revolution had need of muscle power and immigrants could learn gradually and move up the ladder to greater skills. There were thus economic trends which helped people escape poverty. And then perhaps. the most decisive act of selfhelp on the part of that older generation was to organize the trade union movement.
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