1965
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Address, Testimonial Dinner for Lieutenant Governor Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin
The challenges and the dreams touch every man and woman and child in America—and in the world. There is challenge in automation, which could mean widespread permanent unemployment in this country
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Senate Speech
We are stronger, and therefore have more responsibility, than any nation on earth; we should make the first effort, the greatest effort, and the last effort to control nuclear weapons. We can and must begin immediately.
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Address at the Testimonial Dinner for Congressman John Dow, Sterling Forest, New York
In many ways Wall Street is closer to London than it is to Harlem, a few miles Uptown; Scarsdale is often closer to Paris than to Selma, Alabama; and Americans in Appalachia are in many ways closer to the Favelas of Rio De Janeiro than they are to the society in which you and I…
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Speech at the American Friends of the Hebrew University, New York City
There is a passage in Deuteronomy, in which the Lord says, “And now, O Israel, I hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them.” Commenting on this, the great Rabbis of the Talmudic Age saw its special meaning: “not learning,” they said, “but doing is the principal thing.”
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Statement Before Students in Peru
We are finding that it is not enough to feed and clothe and house a man—or even to give him work. Instead we are finding that the most important thing is to help men to help themselves. This is the most difficult task of all.
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Address on Vietnam at the United States Senate
Tags Share Mr. President, I vote for this resolution because our fighting forces in Vietnam and elsewhere deserve the unstinting support of the American government and the American people. I do so in the understanding that, as Senator [John] Stennis [Mississippi] said yesterday: “It is not a blank check…If [the president] substantially enlarges or changes…
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Controlling the spread of nuclear weapons
Tags Share I rise today to urge action on the most vital issue now facing this nation and the world. This issue is not in the headlines. It is not Vietnam, or the Dominican Republic, or Berlin. It is the question of nuclear proliferation—of the mounting threat posed by the spread of nuclear weapons… Nuclear…
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Reflections on the 1965 Watts Riots: State Convention, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Tags Share I want to speak to you tonight about some of the events of the last week: about the dead and the orphans of the rioting in Los Angeles; about the sick and the distressed of all our urban ghettos; about the hatred and the fear and the brutality we saw in Los angeles;…
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Address to the National Council of Christians and Jews
Tags Share The unfinished business at hand is the most difficult and dangerous that we have ever faced. Today’s problems of intolerance are harder than yesterday’s; tomorrow’s will be harder still. One reason for this difficulty is that racial intolerance is harder to combat than religious intolerance. Most people, after all, have to be told…
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Commencement Address at Queens College
Tags Share Around the world—from the Straits of Magellan to the Straits of Malacca, from the Nile delta to the Amazon basin, in Jaipur and Johannesburg—the dispossessed people of the world are demanding their place in the sun. For uncounted centuries, they have lived with hardship, with hunger and disease and fear. For the last…
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