1966
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Statement to the Senate
In looking forward toward legislation, I believe that major emphasis must be given to air pollution research and development. For this is an area where a major investment will pay dividends.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
I come here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
Ever since the onset of the Cold War, we have been urged to “develop” a concise, exacting American manifesto— a platform which would compete with the simple, rousing calls of the Communists.
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
In our country it is no longer enough to count the poor, to sympathize with the Negro struggle for equality, to watch with sadness the decay of our urban life. We must acknowledge—and do something to change the facts of our present life.
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
We must reach out as well to those who have been passed by in the past—those already out of school, the fathers and mothers of young children, the unemployed and the abandoned of this entire nation.
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Address at the American Medical Center Judy Holliday Memorial Dinner, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City
Old age is something that happens to everybody, and if we are wise enough and unselfish enough and effective enough, then we can make those years a time in which to live, not just linger.
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Statement
The right of agricultural workers around the country to organize into unions and bargain collectively has now been recognized in the fields of one grower in California
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Day Of Affirmation Address
Tags Share Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice Chancellor, Professor Robertson, Mr. Diamond, Mr. Daniel, Ladies and Gentlemen: I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native…
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Address at the University of Stellenbosch
Tags Share If we—all of us—are to conquer anew the freedom for which our forebears gave so much, we must begin with a dialogue both full and free. In the world of 1966 no nation is an island unto itself. Global systems of transportation and communications and economics have transformed our sense of geography and…
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The Goals of American Foreign Policy: Columbus Day Dinner
Tags Share The year 1492 symbolizes the three parts of the American experience: our past conquests, our present dangers, and the most spacious of our future hopes. At the same moment that men were flaunting danger to master a primitive continent, the civilization of the world was reaching one of its greatest moments. In the…
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Address at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Tags Share I have been in your country only a short time; yet you already have made a strong and deep impression…Everywhere I have been impressed with the warmth and the interest of all of the people of South Africa, of all political persuasions and races. Everywhere I have been impressed by your achievements, the…
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On rebuilding a sense of community
Tags Share Even as the drive toward bigness [and] concentration…has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid; in overcrowding and pollution of the atmosphere, and impersonality; in growth of organizations, particularly government, so large and powerful that individual effort and…
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