1966
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
Leadership in Freedom depends on fidelity and persistence in those shaping beliefs—democracy, freedom, justice
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western…
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Statement on Federal Metal and Non-Metallic Mine Safety Bill
National Safety Council accident statistics show clearly that miners and mill workers are more likely to be seriously injured or killed than workers in almost any other industry
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,
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Senate Speech
It is not given to us to right every wrong, to make perfect all the imperfections of the world. But neither is it given to us to sit content in our store houses—dieting while others starve, buying 8 million new cars a year while most of the world goes without shoes. We are simply not…
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Nations, like man, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; towards justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of…
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Speech at University of Alabama
Negroes must be as free as other Americans —free to vote and to learn and to earn their way, and to share in the decisions of government would shape their lives. We know that to accomplish this end will mean great tension and difficulty and strife for all of u
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Speech before the Western New York Publishers Association, Painted Post, New York
Thomas Jefferson once said that he cared not who made a country’s laws, so long as he could write its newspapers.
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
Only if we ourselves lessen the role and importance of nuclear weapons can we expect other, weaker nations to do the same; and only if nuclear weapons do become less important can we hope, in the long run, that others, no matter what treaties we reach, will refrain from making or acquiring them.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
It is for us now, in New York and Alabama and all over the nation, to create new kinds of systems, for education and health, and work and housing; systems which will bring one fifth of America, for the first time, into the 20th century, into a society which creates and opens new opportunities even…
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Address at the Society of Friends of Puerto Rico Eugenio Maria de Hostos “One-America” Award Dinner, New York City
The dispossessed and the landless will not strive and sacrifice to improve land they do not own, and whose proceeds they do not share.
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
We are going to be held responsible for the failures and difficulties of Latin America. In many cases, this will be justified: we are further advanced; we are more fortunate
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