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SATURDAY, DECEMER 21,1563
They March With Death
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ready have questioned a Walk
advance team, and, although
an Assistant Chief said he
thought they had a right to car
ry out their program in the
city, they would need parade
permits from the Mayor, Po
lice Department and Fire De
partment. Many officers were
hostile.
Already on Georgia highways,
walkers have been knocked
down, signs torn up. In Grif
fin police savagely attacked
them with an electric cattle
prod. One of the walkers,
Ray Robinson, was particularly
brutally tortured. "He turned
over on his back when they
began shocking him . . . They
burned his legs, arms then
got him pinned down with the
prodder in the small of his
back, on his spine. Then the
prod was shifted to his geni
tal area, held firmly in place.
They kept yelling, "Get up!"
. . Ray screamed, "I can’t
get up. I’ll die before I get
up for you." . . "Kill me!
Kill me! Go ahead" . . The
walkers protested at the top
of their lungs, asking the po
lice to stop, asking them how
they could treat anyone in such
a manner. The officers final
ly stopped prodding Ray on the
floor and dragged him upstairs
by his feet, shocking and burn
ing him on the way, particularly
in his face. THEY MARCH
WITH DEATH BUT CARE LESS.
A 70-year-old woman named
Pearl Ewald suffered a severe
anginal attack. She was taken
to the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital and was refused ser
vice at first because there
wasn’t a Negro cardiologist and
a policeman put pressure on
the admitting doctor. Yet, out
of the myriad of prejudice and
the "yellow pages’* they found
an amiable doctor.
Dennis Weeks states, "plain
clothesman ... went at the
job with shocking thoroughness.
One took special interest
in the girls’ thighs and breasts,
and in the men’s genitals.”
The situation has been hu
miliating as well as animalis
tic by men in uniform that the
WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE
organization issued a letter to
their Congressman stating,
"This Walk will be testing A
merica. These people are risk
ing torture and possible death
because of their deep concern
for peace. But regardless of
whether or not the public ap
proves the purpose of the Walk,
unless any group can walk safe
ly through the countryside,
we are not a civilized coun
try nor a free society.”
Currently they are in Ameri
cus, here is one of their ex
periences with three local white
ministers: a Presbyterian, a
Baptist, and the Franciscan
priest of the white Catholic
church. Both the Protestant
ministers agreed that the Walk
ought to test the leafleting or
dinance, though neither felt that
he could support such an action
openly. The Baptist was e
specially fearful, hushing the
group before opening his door,
and considerably more hesitant
about the advisability of direct
action. The Catholic priest was
absolutely opposed to any sort
of civil disobedience and asked
his visitors why they didn’t
pack their little black bags and
go on home.” When they men
tioned the chance of police vi-
olence during an arrest,
he seemed to take a certain
amount of pleased satisfaction
in contemplating the possibility,
the group says.
THEY MARCH WITH DEATH
BUT CARE LESS because there
is a God, there are people who
are concerned about the wel
fare of others, time is shaping
what no man can alter —
“PEACE.” History has called
America to the judgement seat
of TRUTH asking her to yield,
we’ve burnt too many crosses
believing we can burn compas
sion. They march but they
make, they hurt but they help,
they tire but they try, they live
but they die daily because they
are in an America which al
lows them to MARCH WITH
DEATH BUT CARE LESS. For
one declared in the stroke of
his pen, . . "None of us seri
ously expects martyrdom to-
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mahc i»»c an instrument of * <V/iy peace;
X^herc there is hatred, let me sow love;
XU he re there is injury, pardon;
IdJherc there is a louLt, faith;
Inhere there is despair, hope;
ddJhcrc there is sadness, jay;
C d^ivine dlhsfer, grant that df
may not so much seeh H,
to he consoled, as to console;
to he understood, as to understand;
to he loved, as to love, for
it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
it is in dying that we are
horn to eternal life.
The Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi K'
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Upon receipt of contributions,
the NAACP mails irom its na
tional office a certicate to the
designated recipient.
"What finer gift,” the ad
vertisement asks, "in the true
spirit of Christmas, could one
select — or receive — doing
honor to both the sender and
the recipient in a common
pledge to work for the day when
’Peace on Earth, Good Will to
Men* shall prevail for all ?”
morrow, or next week ... If
an interracial group can’t walk
down the road together, you
keep try ing until they can. Or
until you haven’t the strength
to try any more.”
Yes, THEY MARCH WITH
DEATH BUT CARE LESS FOR
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