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answers to the serious challenges posed by the changing circumstances of our times. We have no doubt that they and their allies will, as they always have, find those answers.

We realize that among some of our fellow Americans there is the feeling the struggle for equality has been won and calling attention to the inequities that still exist serves no useful purpose. But the struggle has not been won, and as "The State of Black America-1982," so graphically demonstrates, the inequities are much too pronounced for black Americans and those who believe in justice to remain silent.

A gifted black preacher, Francis Grimke, said it all many many years ago from a pulpit in Washington, D.C.

"It is our duty to keep up the agitation of our rights, not only for our sakes, but for the sake of the nation at large. It would not only be against our own interest not to do so, but it would be unpatriotic for us quietly to acquiesce in the present condition of things, for it is a wrong condition of things. If justice sleeps in this land, let it not be because we have helped to lull it to sleep by our silence, our indifference; let it not be from lack of effort on our part to arouse it from its slumbers."

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