Thoughts to Build On

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or physically, their own selfish "improvements" on society
from outside the established social structure.


As this is being written, the vast nation of
China, which once was the seat of world culture, learning,
progress and power, has become a depressing example of
the results of being unwilling to adapt, adjust and conform
in any way to any of the various forms of political, social,
economic and moral concepts held by progressive nations
throughout the world. Instead, China persists in vainly
attempting to impose its own archaic political, economic
and social philosophy on underdeveloped nations by infil-
trated revolutionaries from within and open aggression
from without.


As a result, China is ostracized by the outside
world and shattered within its own borders. The correc-
tions which China needs to m 1ke are clearly evident from
the lessons of this chapter.
Coming closer to home, we have what amounts
to a kind of Negro revolution here in the United States.
The problem, its cause and cure are far too vast and com-
plex to analyze here. I simply want to apply the two-part
formula, discussed in this chapter, to what is probably the
most difficult and sensitive part of the Negro problem-the
integration of Negro families into all-white neighborhoods.
There is more white resistance to this than any other form
of integration. Why?

Surveys have been made in all-white neighbor-
hoods to lind out what are the real reasons for the white
families' rejection of Negro families as neighbors. Know
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