1966
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Address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Banquet, New York
Reliance on government is dependence—and what the people of our ghettoes need is not greater dependence, but full independence; not the charity and favor of their fellow citizens, but equal claims of right and equal power to enforce those claims.
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Speech Delivered at Sioux City, Des Moines, Marion and Dubuque, Iowa
I believe the time has already come when the first two years of college—just like elementary school or high school—should be free to all qualified students.
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
We should not be disappointed that Community Action has not been an instant success. It has been a long time since most leadership in this country has spoken to the poor and tried to understand the problems of their existence.
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Statement on Long Island Wetlands Bill, Delivered Before the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Scientists have pointed out that 60% of the seafood taken from water surrounding the United States is dependent on coastal bays and marshes for their existence
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Testimony to the House Committee on Government Operations, U.S. Court House, Foley Square, New York City
Why shouldn’t young people who will be enticed to smoke by cigarette advertising be spoken for when the tobacco interests are heard so clearly?
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Testimony to the House Committee on Government Operations, U.S. Court House, Foley Square, New York City
The Department of Commerce represents businessmen; the Department of Agriculture represents farmers; the Department of Labor represents workers. In addition, these interests have found further strength through articulate, well-financed and effective lobbies. But consumers, who are by definition the largest single interest group in the country, have not had equal representation in either the Executive…
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of…
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Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
Almost every man now working in the United States will have to change jobs, perhaps two or three times, and his lifetime. That will require new education for all our people—for those who could not complete college in the past, and even those who did.
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Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
As attorney general, I found crime to be, with civil rights, one of our two most serious domestic problems. The crime rate rises by seven percent a year, there is a robbery every five minutes, an aggravated assault every three minutes, a car stolen every minute.
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Statement on Introducing Legislation For the Custody and Treatment of Persons Federally Acquitted on Insanity Grounds, Senate Floor
All of the recent court rulings reflect a judgment that those whose crimes occur because of mental illness should be treated for their illness rather than punished for their conduct.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects.
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