Our Slow Gains In Racial Brotherhood (Sunday, March 19, 1950) "Unitarian Time" Radio Talk - Radio Station KGFJ

Please note: this address is *not* reprinted in the Rev. Fritchman's posthumous collection of sermons and addresses entitled "For the Sake of Clarity." Offered is the text of a radio talk by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman entitled "Our Slow Gains In Racial Brotherhood" given on Sunday, March 19, 1950 on the "Unitarian Time" program at Radio Station KGFJ and published in print form in that year by the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. A mimeographed publication, as issued, measuring 8-1/2" by 14" and containing three pages of text. From the radio talk, reading in short part, "I am beginning this morning with the unhappy fact that religion, even liberal religion, is perpetually harassed by the temptation to talk about ideals, but to excuse itself for not getting down to the hard task of making them work in our immediate situation where we live. In the matter of racial equality, the church is faced with the clear necessity of performance if it is to have any moral prestige and to command the respect of the world, including this portion of the world where you and I live. We are prone to justify, make excuse, explain away, but in the end we lose much ground because we are too easily satisfied with small achievements." Folded once, as issued. The REVEREND STEPHEN H. [HOLE] FRITCHMAN (1902-1981), author, liberal humanist, and social and antiwar activist, was the minister of the progressive First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, California, from 1948 to 1969.