Tuscaloosa, AL
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Speech at the University of Alabama
There are many paths to action—to service and sacrifice—open to young people.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
That which unites us is, must be, stronger than that which divides us. We can concentrate on what unites us, and secure the future for all of our children; or we can concentrate on what divides us, and fail our duty through argument and resentment and waste.
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Speech at University of Alabama
Negroes must be as free as other Americans —free to vote and to learn and to earn their way, and to share in the decisions of government would shape their lives. We know that to accomplish this end will mean great tension and difficulty and strife for all of u
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Speech at the University of Alabama
It is for us now, in New York and Alabama and all over the nation, to create new kinds of systems, for education and health, and work and housing; systems which will bring one fifth of America, for the first time, into the 20th century, into a society which creates and opens new opportunities even…
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Speech at the University of Alabama
Education is the key to jobs—to income—to human dignity itself . . . In the last analysis the quality of education is a question of commitment—of whether people like us are willing to go into the classrooms as teachers or parents, as volunteers or just as concerned citizens, to ensure that every child learns to…
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Address at the University of Alabama
Tags Share We speak as citizens of the same nation, joined by a common history, heartened by common success, troubled by common concerns. And I have come here to Alabama to talk with you of the hope which binds us together as Americans; and to ask you for your help. For America’s successes were not…
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