{"id":716,"date":"2008-11-04T00:32:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/11\/04\/grasping-reality-with-both-hands-the-semi-daily-journal-economist-brad-delong-3\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T00:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:32:40","slug":"grasping-reality-with-both-hands-the-semi-daily-journal-economist-brad-delong-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/04\/grasping-reality-with-both-hands-the-semi-daily-journal-economist-brad-delong-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-click\">\n<figure style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Lyndon_Johnson_signing_Civil_Rights_Act%2C_2_July%2C_1964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civ...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2c\/Lyndon_Johnson_signing_Civil_Rights_Act%2C_2_July%2C_1964.jpg\/202px-Lyndon_Johnson_signing_Civil_Rights_Act%2C_2_July%2C_1964.jpg\" alt=\"President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civ...\" width=\"202\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lyndon B. Johnson\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyndon_B._Johnson\">Lyndon Baines Johnson<\/a> before congress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of Americans. But there is cause for hope and for faith in our Democracy in what is happening here tonight. For the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government&#8211;the government of the greatest nation on earth.<br \/>\nOur mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country&#8211;to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. In our time we have come to live with the moments of great crises. Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues, issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression. But rarely in any time does an issue lay bare the secret heart of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0333333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0333333333%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h\">America<\/a> itself. Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved nation. The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, and should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation. For, with a country as with a person, &#8220;what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?&#8221;<br \/>\nThere is no <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"An American Dilemma\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_American_Dilemma\">Negro problem<\/a>. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. 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But there is cause for hope and for faith in our Democracy in what is happening here tonight. 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