Human Rights Education
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
To say that the future will be different from the present and past may be hopelessly self-evident. I must observe regretfully, however, that in politics it can be heresy. It can be denounced as radicalism or branded as subversion.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
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Speech at the Dedication of Kendrick Hall at the University of San Francisco Law School, San Francisco, California
Since the days of Greece and Rome when the word “citizen” was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. And today, as never before in the free world, responsibility is the greatest right of citizenship and service is the greatest of freedom’s…
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
All of us have the right to dissipate our energies and talent as we desire. But those who are serious about the future have the obligation to direct those energies and talents toward concrete objectives consistent with the ideas they profess. From those of you who take that course will come the fresh ideas and…
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Television interview in the WTTG studios of the Metromedia Television Network
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware and to read the responsible newspapers and periodicals which discuss national and international issues, and which themselves make an effort to distinguish between extremist exploitation of issues and legitimate debate and discussion.
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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City
We have found that man’s hold on the globe is a precarious one. We always thought that our destiny was cradled in another Hand. And when Mr. Khrushchev reported that the Cosmonauts
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Senate Speech
We are stronger, and therefore have more responsibility, than any nation on earth; we should make the first effort, the greatest effort, and the last effort to control nuclear weapons. We can and must begin immediately.
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Address at the New York City Columbus Day Dinner
An America piled high with gold, and clothed in impenetrable armor, yet living among desperate and poor nations in a chaotic world, could neither guarantee its own security nor pursue the dream of a civilization devoted to the fulfillment of man.
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Address at the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
My faith is that Americans are not an inert people. My conviction is that we are rising as a people to confront the hard challenges of our age—and that we know that the hardest challenges are often those within ourselves
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Speech in Washington, D.C.
We have not been getting the truth about America to the world, particularly to the young intellectuals in the foreign nations, and particularly in those countries which are just growing, which have just come onto the world scene. Meanwhile, Communism, armed not with truth but with intensive, attractive propaganda, has been turning them against us.
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Speech at the American Friends of the Hebrew University, New York City
There is a passage in Deuteronomy, in which the Lord says, “And now, O Israel, I hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them.” Commenting on this, the great Rabbis of the Talmudic Age saw its special meaning: “not learning,” they said, “but doing is the principal thing.”
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