Human Rights Education
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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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Senate Speech
We were the first to discover and use the atom’s secrets; our nuclear capability is still the most powerful among the nations of the earth.
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Senate Speech
The need to halt the spread of nuclear weapons must be a central priority of American policy. Of all our major interests, this now deserves and demands the greatest effort.
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
Only if we ourselves lessen the role and importance of nuclear weapons can we expect other, weaker nations to do the same; and only if nuclear weapons do become less important can we hope, in the long run, that others, no matter what treaties we reach, will refrain from making or acquiring them.
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Speech
The job of providing constructive and challenging opportunities for young people throughout the nation is every citizen’s business.
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