tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18692810.post1003514236558200800..comments2024-03-17T10:26:33.859-05:00Comments on Gloria Romanorum: Kate Smith: "All men are equal and have an equal right to enjoy the fruits of this earth."Florentiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620534177711410311noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18692810.post-54456343308121645832019-04-26T08:56:34.055-05:002019-04-26T08:56:34.055-05:00And as if the above wasn't enough to convince ...And as if the above wasn't enough to convince you, here's a statement made by Kate Smith earlier in that same year, 1945: <br /><br />"It seems to me that faith in the decency of human beings is what we must have more of, if there is to be a future for all of us in this world. We read in the papers every day about conferences on the best way to keep the peace. Well, I'm not an expert on foreign affairs—and I don't pretend to know all the complex things that will have to be done for a lasting peace. But I am a human being—and I do know something about people. I know that our statesmen—our armies of occupation—our military strategists—may all fail if the peoples of the world don't learn to understand and tolerate each other. <br /><br />"Race hatreds—social prejudices—religious bigotry—they are all the diseases that eat away the fibers of peace. Unless they are exterminated it's inevitable that we will have another war. And where are they going to be exterminated? At a conference table in Geneva? Not by a long shot. In your own city—your church—your children's school—perhaps in your own home. You and I must do it—every father and mother in the world, every teacher, everyone who can rightfully call himself a human being. Yes, it seems to me that the one thing the peoples of the world have got to learn if we are ever to have a lasting peace, is—tolerance. Of what use will it be if the lights go on again all over the world—if they don't go on ... in our hearts."<br /><br />And this is the woman they are trying to brand as a racist? Taken from <a href="http://jfredmacdonald.com/stereotyping.htm" rel="nofollow">Don't Touch That Dial: Wartime Radio And Racial Stereotyping</a>, where the quote is introduced as "one of the strongest and most impressive individual denunciations of racism."Florentiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620534177711410311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18692810.post-3360465004020823232019-04-25T11:50:12.417-05:002019-04-25T11:50:12.417-05:00That's true enough, Nora. It should be pointed...That's true enough, Nora. It should be pointed out that the Communists hated Kate Smith for obvious reasons. According to this article, the American Communist Party newspaper, The Daily Worker, trashed Smith in 1949 for daring to criticize the repressive Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. https://savejersey.com/2019/04/17-things-you-may-not-know-about-kate-smith/<br /><br />They did the same thing to Pope Pius XII. One would think that people would eventually wise up to these tactics. Florentiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620534177711410311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18692810.post-17222026822658934292019-04-25T08:13:39.911-05:002019-04-25T08:13:39.911-05:00Well this is exactly what Communists did to anyone...Well this is exactly what Communists did to anyone who opposed them, even to rival Communist groups - they called their rivals "fascist" and ostracizeo, defamed, and bullied them for the party's own political gain. Except today the don't call themselves communists, and they call their victims racist instead. You know what "racist" has come to mean these days? It means you have just won an argument with a "liberal" and the liberal has nothing intelligent and rational left to say and so resorts to personal attacks. Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06483734618491639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18692810.post-62337856609953687602019-04-23T12:50:34.590-05:002019-04-23T12:50:34.590-05:00Very well said Gloria and thank you!Very well said Gloria and thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14352064752487441700noreply@blogger.com