For almost half a century, the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, and for more than a quarter century, the Leadership Conference Education Fund, have championed the idea that Americans of every heritage can live together, with equal rights and mutual respect.
Americans are proud that we are people with different backgrounds, faiths, viewpoints, and personal characteristics. But we are also one people, bound together not by bloodlines, but by our respect for human rights and the Constitution.
Our diversity gives us variety and vitality. Our common commitment - to equal justice and equal opportunity for all - gives our nation unity and purpose.
In this report, a coalition representing a cross-section of Americans - working together under the auspices of the Leadership Conference Educaton Fund and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - addresses and assesses the problem of what has come to be called "hate crimes."
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