1967
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Address at the Americans for Democratic Action Dinner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Here in America today, perhaps the clearest mirror of our performance, the truest measure of whether we live up to our ideals, is our youth.
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Address at the Americans for Democratic Action Dinner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
More and more of our children are estranged, alienated in the literal sense, almost unreachable by the familiar premises and arguments of our adult world. And the task of leadership, the first task of concerned people is not to condemn or castigate or deplore
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Remarks Delivered Introducing Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, US Senate
The greatest failure in our existing anti-poverty efforts is the failure to involve and rely on the private enterprise system which is the basic strength of the nation. We have created for the poor a separate economy, almost a separate nation: a second-rate system of welfare handouts, a screen of government agency is keeping the…
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Remarks Introducing the Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, US Senate
More than segregation and housing and schools, more than differences and attitudes or lifestyle, it is unemployment which marks the urban poor off and apart from the rest of America. Unemployment is having nothing to do—which means having nothing to do with the rest of us.
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Address at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
When Marshall McLuhan told us that in this century, ” the medium is the message, ” he was doing more than merely giving us a phrase to go with “Keep the faith, baby.”
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Remarks to Senate
No group of immigrants made greater contributions to America than the Irish. Railroads and factories, schools and hospitals, and churches—
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Address at the Irish Institute, April 1, 1967
The time is long past when men bowed their heads or looked away from our heritage because of shame; indeed, the long roll of Senators and playwrights, poets and heroes, has given us full reason for pride.
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Statement on the Situation in Nicaragua
Not only the interests of the United States, but those of all the American Republics, are best served by free elections—free of fraud in both voting and registration, and above all free of violence and intimidation by either the government or its legal opponents.
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
No sector of the American economy, no group of Americans, has made greater contributions to our strength, our national prosperity, the health and amenity of our lives, than the American farmer
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
It is sometimes said that the decline in total net farm income is not so bad because more than 2 and 1/2 million farmers have left the land since World War I
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Statement on the Food Stamp Program before Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
When I was in Mississippi with the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, I saw conditions of extreme hunger. I saw people who eat only one meal a day or one meal every two days.
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Statement Before Senate
The data coming to light now shows that we have done all too little to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society those who have once run afoul of the law enforcement
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