Human Rights Education
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Remarks at the Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
We are finding that it is not enough to say that justice should be done—or even to pass laws commanding that justice be done. Laws and speeches do not build scho
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Speech at the University of Alabama
It is for us now, in New York and Alabama and all over the nation, to create new kinds of systems, for education and health, and work and housing; systems which will bring one fifth of America, for the first time, into the 20th century, into a society which creates and opens new opportunities even…
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
The law which governs us must be written in the statute books. But there are areas in which our guide is more moral than legal—more a part of the basic fabric of humanity than a rigid code—more a part of our beliefs than specific rules of conduct.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
A century ago Lincoln observed that the dogmas of the quiet past were inadequate to the stormy present. “As our case is new,” he said, “so we must think anew and act anew.
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
Leadership in Freedom depends on fidelity and persistence in those shaping beliefs—democracy, freedom, justice
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Senate Speech
If we are to leave our children a planet on which to live safely, to fulfill the bright promise of their lives, we must resume the journey towards peace.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western…
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
With the irony of a paradoxical world, the surest guarantee of peace at present is the power to wage war. The United States has that power. It comes from our programs of strength and deterrence.
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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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