Human Rights Education
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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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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
The road ahead is full of difficulties and discomforts. But as for me, I welcome the challenge, I welcome the opportunity and I pledge my best effort—all I have in material things and physical strength and spirit to see that freedom shall advance and that our children will grow old under the rule of law.
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
We are going to be held responsible for the failures and difficulties of Latin America. In many cases, this will be justified: we are further advanced; we are more fortunate
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Speech in Chicago
There are those, frustrated by a difficult future, who grab out for the security of a nonexistent past. Frustrated by change, they condemned the wisdom, the motives and even the patriotism of those who seek to contend with the realities of the future. They search for the haven of doctrine.
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Senate Speech
Of course, unilateral action is easier than collective action; but we are much stronger when we act in concert with the rest of the hemisphere than when we act alone; and consultation is the price you must pay for the extra strength our alliances give us
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Address at the Luncheon of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Americana Hotel, New York City
It is our experience that physical and economic isolation of any group in our society causes it to fall behind. We are a highly mobile society, and our mobility causes interaction, stimulation, and progress. Isolation brings stagnation and retrogression.
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Address at the Luncheon of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Americana Hotel, New York City
Our purpose in ending the isolation of the ghetto is no different in the end from our purpose in trying to restore vigor to the life of Appalachia. In both cases it is the inevitable or erosion of the spirit which isolation has brought that we seek to counteract.
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