1963
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Speech in Chicago
Education is basic to the future of this nation. When thousands of our citizens are afforded only inferior educational opportunities, they suffer a loss which can never be compensated and the whole country is subjected to unnecessary social and economic waste.
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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
I suspect there may always be arguments about what constitutes a higher education, but wise men through the ages have at least been able to agree on its purpose.
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Speech at the Opening of Exhibit on the Emancipation Proclamation at The National Archives in Washington, D.C.
We have had a great deal of talk in this country in the past one hundred years about equality. Deeds, not talk, are what is needed. It is only relatively recently that we as a nation have again gathered our strength, our will, and our determination to act boldly and vigorously to lift from all…
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
We know full well the faults of our democracy—the handicaps of freedom—the inconvenience of dissent. But I know of no American who would not rather be a servant in the imperfect house of Freedom, than be a master of all the empires of tyranny.
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Speech at the Meeting of the University of South Carolina Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Columbia, South Carolina
Tags Share The only cure for resentment is progress. The only antidote to agitation is the effort which state, local and Federal officials are making to deal both with discrimination itself and with its deep-seated economic and social effects.
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Address at Kentucky’s Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.
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Speech at the Ceremonies Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Constitution of the United States, in a few thousand words, established a way of life that has built this Nation into greatness as the world’s leader and champion of freedom.
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Speech at the Ceremonies Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Now as always, when the Constitution is too narrowly interpreted on a word-for-word basis, it can too easily become a crutch for reaction, a reactionalization, an excuse for maintaining the status quo.
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Speech in Chicago
I believe that, as long as most men are honest, corruption is twice vicious. It hurts men and it undermines their fundamental rights. We must be doubly wary, with private and public vigilance.
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Speech in Chicago
The financial cost of organized crime is not limited to the vast illicit profits of gambling or narcotics.
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Speech in Chicago
We are doing an increasingly better job of using most of our assets in the effort to curb the enormous power of organized crime. But the effort has only begun. In 1961 and 1962 Congress granted us new statutory authority with which to act against the rackets. With bipartisan concern and support, we obtained new…
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