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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
It is necessary to mistrust personal power enough to provide for some restraints upon its use. This is the idea of political competition that underlies everything else in the American political system and the Constitution. Do not deprive a man of his capacity to act. Just be sure that he in turn is willing to…
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Address at the New York State Association of Towns, New York City
All around us is evidence of the urban crisis of our time. The streets are clogged with traffic. The air is heavy with smoke. Our water is in short supply. And a short subway ride on almost any line— when the subways are running— will bring us to the crowded slums of the city, to…
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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people—speaking out—in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out— in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes— let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.
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Address to the Civil Rights Committee of New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, New York City
The people’s vote is the people’s voice and when some people cannot vote they cannot effectively speak against injustice and deprivation of other rights.
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Address at the Annual Luncheon of the Associated Press, New York City
It is virtually impossible for even the most alert administration to be fully aware of all the corruption or laxity that can creep into our government. But an alert press can make a major difference not only in eliminating wasteful or corrupt practices, but in ensuring that justice prevails.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
A century ago Lincoln observed that the dogmas of the quiet past were inadequate to the stormy present. “As our case is new,” he said, “so we must think anew and act anew.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
We are all aware of, and delighted by, the success of the Peace Corps. The men and women who have served in it have brought to peoples around the world, in remote mountain villages and in bustling industrial cities, the true picture of the American of the sixties. It has been their spirit, their idealism,…
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Address at the Annual Convention of the Theater Owners of America, New York City
The most any law can do is point the way—the rest is up to the people. Civil Rights is not an issue that can be solved by governmental edict—it must be dealt with at the community level, within states, within cities, within neighborhoods—wherever a meeting takes place between persons of light and dark skin.
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Address to the American Jewish Congress, New York City
In our society, laws are administered to protect and expand individual freedom, not to compel individuals to follow the logic other men impose on them.
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Address at the Annual Convention of the Theatre Owners of America, New York City
Those of us who are white can only dimly guess at what the pain of racial discrimination must be—what it must be like to be turned away from a public place, or made to use only a segregated portion of that place,
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Speech before the Western New York Publishers Association, Painted Post, New York
Thomas Jefferson once said that he cared not who made a country’s laws, so long as he could write its newspapers.
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Address at the Luncheon of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Americana Hotel, New York City
It is our experience that physical and economic isolation of any group in our society causes it to fall behind. We are a highly mobile society, and our mobility causes interaction, stimulation, and progress. Isolation brings stagnation and retrogression.
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