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To: DaveInDallas
The NAACP didn't win by simply going to court and demanding an end to all segregation immediately.

Nonsense. They won by appealing consistently to the conscience of the nation as concerns EQUALITY before God and the law.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

"We the People of the United States, in Order to...secure the Blessings of Liberty to...POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."


143 posted on 07/11/2012 11:51:55 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (If you've surrendered your principles out of fear of Obama, Obama has already won. TomHoefling.com)
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To: EternalVigilance
Nonsense. They won by appealing consistently to the conscience of the nation as concerns EQUALITY before God and the law.

Baloney. The NAACP had a deliberate strategy to attack segregation, and it took a decade to implement. They didn't go filing lawsuits willy-nilly, and they didn't demand an immediate end to all segregation. Care to show some evidence to the contrary?
153 posted on 07/11/2012 12:49:58 PM PDT by DaveInDallas
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