Yours has been a pragmatic movement basing itself on achievement and progress rather than on some abstract economic and political theory.
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We also have a program here for those whom we regard as mentally restored, those who pass through a difficult period but who are now fully capable of carrying their burden.
But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
We are attempting, in cooperation with the State and the city, as Reverend Potter described, to carry out a pilot program here in the city of New York, but it is only a beginning, and there are hundreds of thousands without resources, and we have a responsibility to all of them.
I hope this kind of intimate association, cooperation for the benefit of all of our people, may be extended to other fields.





