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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 15, 1970 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 NOTICE ! ! ! A MEETING of the GENERAL MEMBERSHIP of the FORT MADISON, BRANCH, NAACP, will be held at 6:30 PM, on Sunday, October 18th, at City Hall in the Council Room, for the purpose of electing a NOMINATING COMMITTEE, composed of not less than five, nor more than fifteen members. (This Committee will report to the November meeting of the Branch)and for the transaction of such other business as may come before said meeting. ALL regular and Life Members whose memberships are paid at least thirty days prior to this meeting, or are transferred from the National Office, are entitled to vote and be elected to office. Please plan to attend. WORDS TO THINK ABOUT "If you have to weigh freedom, you don't want freedom. If you say: 'you have to give up this much to get that much,' if you get hung up on that, you can forget about being free...It's already too costly for you. If you want to be free, you want to be free no matter what the cost." -Reverend Albert B. Cleage - pastor of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, Detriot, Michigan "Every time you miss a vote you run the chance of being sold back into slavery." -Reverend Andrew Young - executive Vice Pres. SCLC, in the importance of Blacks getting out to vote. "If democracy is as good as we say it is, why in the hell are we running all over the world ramming it down people's throats? If it was so good other countries would be stealing it." -Dick Gregory. "I think our country is in trouble primarily because we are still following a national leadership that is focusing the major energies of the nation on external fears than on internal neglect." -Senator George McGovern, So. Dakota "Integration of education is not for the benefit of either white or Black children, but for all human beings who must learn to live together in a pluralist society." -Marcus A. Foster, former Philadelphia educator, now, Oakland, California's first Black school Superintendent "The best test of freedom is not what we can do, but what we cannot do." -Reverend Billy Graham, renowned evangelist, in a TV sermon University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 15, 1970 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 NOTICE ! ! ! A MEETING of the GENERAL MEMBERSHIP of the FORT MADISON, BRANCH, NAACP, will be held at 6:30 PM, on Sunday, October 18th, at City Hall in the Council Room, for the purpose of electing a NOMINATING COMMITTEE, composed of not less than five, nor more than fifteen members. (This Committee will report to the November meeting of the Branch)and for the transaction of such other business as may come before said meeting. ALL regular and Life Members whose memberships are paid at least thirty days prior to this meeting, or are transferred from the National Office, are entitled to vote and be elected to office. Please plan to attend. WORDS TO THINK ABOUT "If you have to weigh freedom, you don't want freedom. If you say: 'you have to give up this much to get that much,' if you get hung up on that, you can forget about being free...It's already too costly for you. If you want to be free, you want to be free no matter what the cost." -Reverend Albert B. Cleage - pastor of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, Detriot, Michigan "Every time you miss a vote you run the chance of being sold back into slavery." -Reverend Andrew Young - executive Vice Pres. SCLC, in the importance of Blacks getting out to vote. "If democracy is as good as we say it is, why in the hell are we running all over the world ramming it down people's throats? If it was so good other countries would be stealing it." -Dick Gregory. "I think our country is in trouble primarily because we are still following a national leadership that is focusing the major energies of the nation on external fears than on internal neglect." -Senator George McGovern, So. Dakota "Integration of education is not for the benefit of either white or Black children, but for all human beings who must learn to live together in a pluralist society." -Marcus A. Foster, former Philadelphia educator, now, Oakland, California's first Black school Superintendent "The best test of freedom is not what we can do, but what we cannot do." -Reverend Billy Graham, renowned evangelist, in a TV sermon University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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