story for their first 25 years is an Inspiring document of democracy action. at the best. an epic which could have been written only In America and which completely refutes the hate and race mongers of only a few years ago who charged that the Japanese. by their very character. were unassimilable into the American cultural pattern. which itself as we all know. is made up of the cultures and the contributions of all the many peoples who have Immigrated to these shores since time immemorial. as did the ancestors of all of us. "But perhaps even more important in the long pull of history is that. what the JACL has accomplished here in the United States is living proof to all the free peoples of the world. and especially to those in the Far East who are so important to us as a nation today. that the democratic way is best. for it makes possible the correction of abuses and wrongs and the achievement of justice and redress on the basis of the complete record and of individual merit. not race. color. creed or national origin." In its ceaseless struggle for the extension of the rights and privileges of America to every citizen. the JACL has been guided by the spirit of its "Japanese American Creed." It was written by Mike M. Masaoka. longtime Washington representative of the JACL. It was first read before the United States Senate on May 9. 1941. and published in the Congressional Record.
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Refutes the idea that Japanese people are unassimilable into American culture.