-- rights to which they are entitled. The Constitution does not
provide for first and second class citizens.

They are entitled to the same opportunity to acquire an
education -- an education of the same quality -- as that given to
other citizens.

They should receive the same per capita expenditure of
public moneys for schools, housing, health and hospitalization
as is allotted to other citizens.

Their right to work must equal that of any citizen and their
reward should be the same as the reward of any other citizen for
the same job.

Their economic opportunity should not be limited by their
color.

And last, they should have the right of every citizen to fight
for his country in any branch of her armed services without
discrimination and with equality of opportunity.

These are merely rights that the Negro of our communities
is entitled to share with other citizens. Republicans should see
to it that he gets them. For all of these reasonable demands
are consistent with the very principles upon which the Re-
publican Party was founded. All of them are a part of the
freedom for which men of every color and race are dying. Our
adoption or rejection of them will be the test of our sincerity
and of our moral leadership in the eyes of hundreds of millions
all over the world.

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