1965
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Speech at the National Council of Christians and Jews
Today’s problems of intolerance are harder than yesterday’s; tomorrow’s will be harder still.
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Address at the Testimonial Dinner for Congressman John Dow, Sterling Forest, New York
Justice, dignity, equality — These are words which are often used loosely with little appreciation of their meaning. I think that their meaning can be distilled into one goal: that every child in this country live as we would want our own children to live.
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Senate Speech
Of course, unilateral action is easier than collective action; but we are much stronger when we act in concert with the rest of the hemisphere than when we act alone; and consultation is the price you must pay for the extra strength our alliances give us
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
It is a source of anguish to many of our own citizens with relatives abroad . . . Under the law, an American citizen born in one country can get a maid or gardener overnight from another country but must wait a year or more to be reunited with his mother.
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Address at Congressional Dinner at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California
There have always been extremists of both the left and the right in our country. There probably will always be. But if responsible and progressive elements can meet the needs of our people they will remain on the fringe.
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Statement Before Peruvian Students
Justice is land for those who live by farming—and all the world has seen that free farmers on their own land are the surest means to an abundant agriculture. Justice is a decent education for every child
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Address Delivered at the Mayor Burns Testimonial, Binghamton, New York
he Democratic Party has had many causes, and called them by many names: the New Freedom of Wilson; the New Deal of Roosevelt; the Fair Deal of Truman; the New Frontier; the Great Society. But all of these programs have had at their heart an active commitment to individual liberty and individual freedom.
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Address Delivered at the Testimonial Dinner for Lieutenant Governor Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin
And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party.
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Remarks Delivered at the University of Southern California Convocation
The right to criticize carries with it a responsibility— to study the facts, to be fully informed . . .
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Statement at the Union Baptist Church, New York, New York
Some 75 percent of those addicted to heroin come from the 20 percent of society with the lowest incomes. Until there are enough jobs to go around, until everyone has a decent home and a decent education, until we have uniformly stable and secure family structures—in short, until the world is a much better place…
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Speech at the Kings County Democratic Dinner
We know that crime reaches its peak in the summer months, when young people are out of school and too often out of work as well. A summer job
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Remarks at the University of Southern California Convocation
Criticism is a characteristic of a committed population. But to be responsible and constructive, it must be accompanied by continued participation, by careful examination of the facts, and by consideration of the rights of others to speak
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