Human Rights Education
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Speech at the National Conference of Christians and Jews Dinner, Cleveland, Ohio
While our scientists strive to lead the way to the moon, other Americans are helping new nations to decide their own destiny and keep their newly-won independence, for the race won in outer space is meaningless if we fail in our efforts to extend the cause of freedom around the globe.
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Statement Before Peruvian Students
Justice is land for those who live by farming—and all the world has seen that free farmers on their own land are the surest means to an abundant agriculture. Justice is a decent education for every child
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Address at the Cornell University Agricultural Leaders’ Forum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The word “rural” no longer means what it once did for us
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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
In the light of a truly freed mind no prejudice can disguise itself as zeal, no bullying can masquerade as leadership, no pettiness can pose as importance.
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Statement on the Food Stamp Program before Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
When I was in Mississippi with the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, I saw conditions of extreme hunger. I saw people who eat only one meal a day or one meal every two days.
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Statement on the Situation in Nicaragua
Not only the interests of the United States, but those of all the American Republics, are best served by free elections—free of fraud in both voting and registration, and above all free of violence and intimidation by either the government or its legal opponents.
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Senate Speech
For our legacy—to our children, to the next generation of political leaders in the United States—will be far more than what we leave within our boundaries. Its most important element will be the role and standing of the United States in the world— whether, in short, people will look to this country with hope or…
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Senate Speech
We are increasingly an island of affluence and privilege in a world of desperate poverty—
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Senate Speech
The population of this globe grows every day, nowhere faster than in the underdeveloped nations.
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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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Senate Speech
The accomplishments of United States foreign assistance are already substantial— they are being felt in dozens of countries, all over the world.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
If we are going to win the present conflict with the Soviet Union, we can no longer support the exploitation of native people by Western nations.
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