Human Rights Education
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Senate Speech
The war on poverty, like it or not, is the single outstanding commitment this nation has made to the principle that poverty must be abolished.
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Address, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
There is a new world about us— beset by hunger, energized by revolution, largely controlled by that half of the world’s people who are under the age of 25.
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Speech delivered at Sioux City, Des Moines, Marion and Dubuque, Iowa
When we think of the challenges of a changing world, we have to think and plan, not for the benefit of special groups, but for the needs of the whole American people; not just for the presently poor, but for those who may fall into difficulty if we do not act now.
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Remarks at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Community Center, Weirton, West Virginia
We must help our needy at home— yet we must also know the plight of the needy beyond our shores.
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
Talking is not enough. But it is a beginning. We might do better than turning our backs in embarrassed anger when spokesmen for the poor blast the social structure that has left them out.
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Speech in Chicago
The real problem of power, of the concentration of power, is not its existence, because we cannot wish it away. The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use—of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
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Address Before the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at the Hotel Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida
If we are to succeed in having rational discussion, we must do it without epithets and name-calling by either side, without sloganeering and conscious misrepresentation of facts by either side. The quest for truth requires adherence to its principles by all who compete for its mantle.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In the United Nations we are striving to establish a rule of law instead of a rule of force. In that forum and elsewhere around the world our deeds will speak for us.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
That which unites us is, must be, stronger than that which divides us. We can concentrate on what unites us, and secure the future for all of our children; or we can concentrate on what divides us, and fail our duty through argument and resentment and waste.
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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 Conference of UPI Editors and Publishers, Washington, D. C.
I have a deep awareness of the role that the press plays in our society. I firmly believe that freedom of information is one of the most important weapons we have in the great struggle for freedom now going on around the world.
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Senate Speech
We cannot protect only our friends from nuclear attack—or allow nations with whom we are otherwise friendly to threaten others with nuclear weapons. We must stand against nuclear aggression—period.
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