Human Rights Education
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Speech Prepared for Delivery at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
We will, in a sense, have to make of the United States a vast continuing educational system
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
We are coming to understand that much of what is wrong with our education system is precisely that it is too much involved with government. Impersonal bureaucracies, however well-intentioned, operating from efficient remote headquarters, are no substitute for the intimate involvement of community—of home or church, of local voluntary association, and—in the last analysis—the active…
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Speech in Chicago
Education is basic to the future of this nation. When thousands of our citizens are afforded only inferior educational opportunities, they suffer a loss which can never be compensated and the whole country is subjected to unnecessary social and economic waste.
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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
I suspect there may always be arguments about what constitutes a higher education, but wise men through the ages have at least been able to agree on its purpose.
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Address Before the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at the Hotel Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida
On Jewish literature is a seal on which is the burning bush and the words in Hebrew, “And the Bush was not consumed.” So it must be today— for the more brightly the flame of discussion and debate burns in our nation, the more sure it is that the bush that is democracy will never…
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
Our schools, our homes, our families, our churches—these are the vessels in which we preserve traditions and wisdom and ideals of our past, in which we add the experience and insights which best serve our time, through which we pass our truest legacy to our children.
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Statement on Vietnam
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few Nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in…
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
What is our educational commitment? In principle, our commitment has been that every child should have an adequate education. But if we mean our commitment
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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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Speech at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. For that reason, progressive political programs are the best way to erode the Communist presence in Latin America, to turn back the Communist thrust into Southeast Asia, and to ensure the stability of the…
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Speech at the Ceremonies Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Now as always, when the Constitution is too narrowly interpreted on a word-for-word basis, it can too easily become a crutch for reaction, a reactionalization, an excuse for maintaining the status quo.
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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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