Human Rights Education
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Address Delivered Before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
Ours is a time when many things are just too big to be grasped.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,
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Senate Speech
It is not given to us to right every wrong, to make perfect all the imperfections of the world. But neither is it given to us to sit content in our store houses—dieting while others starve, buying 8 million new cars a year while most of the world goes without shoes. We are simply not…
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Address at the American G.I. Forum, Chicago, Illinois
What none of us forget that we are living in a time of infinite possibilities. Both domestically and in international relations, America has never before in history had a greater chance to fulfill the dreams of men through the ages—dreams of individual freedom, national prosperity, and world peace.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Nations, like man, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; towards justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of…
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Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
Almost every man now working in the United States will have to change jobs, perhaps two or three times, and his lifetime. That will require new education for all our people—for those who could not complete college in the past, and even those who did.
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Address at the Testimonial Dinner for Congressman John Dow, Sterling Forest, New York
Justice, dignity, equality — These are words which are often used loosely with little appreciation of their meaning. I think that their meaning can be distilled into one goal: that every child in this country live as we would want our own children to live.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Delinquency is a broad problem and demands a broad attack. Educational programs, job opportunities, recreational facilities, adult counseling
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Address at the Seattle World’s Fair
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
We must always remember that delinquency does not just happen. It has causes, and these causes can be attacked. Some of the greatest sources of this problem are family disintegration, slum housing, lack of recreation facilities, racial discrimination, school failure and school dropouts, and youth unemployment.
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
We have a responsibility to ourselves, to the next generation to consider the future.
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Address at the Society of Friends of Puerto Rico Eugenio Maria de Hostos “One-America” Award Dinner, New York City
The dispossessed and the landless will not strive and sacrifice to improve land they do not own, and whose proceeds they do not share.
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