Article September 11, 1965 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from George R. Farnum

From "Thought for Today"
an editorial message
in The Sacramento Union, California

When racial discrimination is deplored, observers invariably speak of the effect upon the victims, not the perpetrators. But the persecutors likewise should be pitied. They perhaps are so blind that they do not realize the extent of their violation of God's law of brotherly love and of this nation's tradition—from its very founding —that all men are created equal.

The advocate of any form of racial or religious intolerance never recognizes what he does to himself. The individual who spews forth hate is an obvious victim of his own poison, for he is embittered, filled with ugly emotions. Even the person practicing prejudice in some milder form is never happier for having done so.

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