Human Rights Education
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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 University of California, Berkeley Campus
Surely the world has seen enough, in the last forty years of violence and hatred. Surely we have seen enough of the attempt to justify present injustice by past slights, or to punish the unjust by making the world more unjust.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
The central disease of violence is what it does to all of us— to those who engage in it as much as to those who are its victims.
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Speech in Worthington, Minnesota
Education, the rebirth of rural America, recapturing this nation for individual and community effort—these are great visions, the heart of the task that lies ahead of all of us— Easterners and Westerners, men of the city and men of the farm.
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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
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people—speaking out—in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out— in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes— let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.
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Speech in Chicago
I believe that, as long as the instruments of peace are available, war is madness. Government must be strong wherever madness threatens the peace.
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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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