1966
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
Surely the world has seen enough, in the last forty years of violence and hatred. Surely we have seen enough of the attempt to justify present injustice by past slights, or to punish the unjust by making the world more unjust.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
The central disease of violence is what it does to all of us— to those who engage in it as much as to those who are its victims.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
To understand the causes is not to permit the result. No man has the right to wantonly menace the safety and well-being of his neighbors. All citizens have the right to security in the streets of their community—in Birmingham or in Los Angeles. And it is the duty of all public officials to keep the…
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Speech in Worthington, Minnesota
Education, the rebirth of rural America, recapturing this nation for individual and community effort—these are great visions, the heart of the task that lies ahead of all of us— Easterners and Westerners, men of the city and men of the farm.
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Senate Speech
The war on poverty, like it or not, is the single outstanding commitment this nation has made to the principle that poverty must be abolished.
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Statement Before the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power, Syracuse, New York
There is no easy solution to our water pollution problems.
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Speech delivered at Sioux City, Des Moines, Marion and Dubuque, Iowa
When we think of the challenges of a changing world, we have to think and plan, not for the benefit of special groups, but for the needs of the whole American people; not just for the presently poor, but for those who may fall into difficulty if we do not act now.
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
Talking is not enough. But it is a beginning. We might do better than turning our backs in embarrassed anger when spokesmen for the poor blast the social structure that has left them out.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
For two centuries, my own country has struggled to overcome the self-imposed handicap of prejudice and discrimination based on nationality, social class or race
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Statement at the Federal Water Pollution Control Enforcement Conference for Moriches and Great South Bays Long Island, New York
As families move out of our cities into attractive towns and villages, they bring with them requirements that these small communities have not faced in the past.
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Senate Speech
Properly used technology should not displace workers, but should speed them on their way to new jobs more quickly
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