1964
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
When we talk about birthright we talk about the right of opportunity, the right of opportunity to succeed or fail on individual talents unfettered by man-made barriers. That is what gives a man his dignity.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
I would encourage the many, rather than the few, to participate in public life at the national, state or local level.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
There have always and everywhere been those, throughout our history, and particularly in times of crisis, who have preached intolerance, who have sought to escape reality and responsibility with a slogan or a scapegoat.
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Speech at the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois
What is the price tag on equal justice under law? Has simple justice a price which we as a profession must exact? Is that what we have come to?
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Thus I was pleased as attorney general to be able to establish a new office of Criminal Justice in the department to deal with the whole spectrum of the criminal process, from arrest to rehabilitation.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
Freedom by itself is not enough. “Freedom is a good horse,” said Matthew Arnold, “but a horse to ride somewhere.” What counts is the use to which men put freedom; what counts is how liberty becomes the means of opportunity and growth and justice.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
The energy which causes people from all sections of the United States to strive for fulfillment of the pledges of the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation is essentially moral energy, and it has no end.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
By the efforts of 1963–64, in which I am so proud to have played a part, we have gone a long way towards redeeming the pledges upon which this Republic was founded—pledges that all are created equal, that they are endowed equally with unalienable rights and are entitled to equal opportunity in the pursuit of…
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
Organized crime is a national problem. The racketeer is not someone dressed in a black shirt, white tie and diamond stickpin, whose activities affect only a remote underworld circle. He is more likely to be outfitted in a gray flannel suit, and his influence is more likely to be as far-reaching as that of an…
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