“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)
Context: We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi 1907–1972

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