"To Improve Real Property Is for the Advancement of Your Surrounding
Conditions
and for The Moral Betterment Generally, of All Humanity."
Housing and Sanitation
FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
- The Property Improvement Tax Exemption Bill Is for the Uplift of Humanity and for Moral Betterment
Generally.
- Re: FATHER DIVINE The Forerunner Of
Public Housing
'...The bedrock of the Peace Mission Movement is not the dining table but
the palatial homes in which the followers live, and that FATHER DIVINE was
a forerunner of public housing in this country!"
Remarks by Att'y J. Austin Norris given Sept. 12, 1953 2:00 A. M.
- Subject; Segregation and amalgamation. 'We have the integration of all nations and peoples in all of our places.
They are open to and for that purpose to have everybody, whomsoever they
may be so long as they are people and live according to the fundamentals
for which we stand; all are welcome."
New Day, July 28, 1951; P. 6-7 Interview - Given July 10, 1951; 7:00 p.m.
- For YOUR Goodness to All YOU Are Worthy to Be Praised! Re: Low Cost of
Living; Acquisitions.
'...We shall house the inhabitants of the earth eventually and give them
their real emancipation... for GOD is the emancipator and will emancipate
those who will trust HIM."
New Day, Sept. 5 ,1953; P. 5-7 Message - Given Aug. 23, 1953; 4:00 p.m.
- "I proposed a five year tax exemption bill several years ago ... not
for MY followers alone, but for each and everybody to improve themselves
by improving their respective surroundings and bring an abolition to all
unsanitary existing conditions, to have a general slum clearance proposition
that would be done by the landlords and property owners."
New Day, Jan. 8, 1942; P. 37-39 Message - Given Jan 2, 1941; 8:50 p.m.
- Re: the improvement and renovation of real property. 'To improve real property, it is for the advancement of your surrounding
conditions and for the moral betterment generally, of all humanity."
New Day, June 16, 1938; P. 19-22 Message - Given June 3, 1938; 3:15 a.m.
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