Human Rights Education
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
This country has really been built on the foundation that the government doesn’t do everything; that the neighbor helps his neighbor.
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Address at the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Convention, Miami Beach, Florida
It is not easy to plant trees when we will not live to see their flowering. But that way lies greatness. And in search of greatness we will find it—for ourselves as a nation and a people.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people—before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous—although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it—although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it…
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
The first element of individual liberty is the freedom of speech; the right to express and communicate idea
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions they can make and the leadership they can provide; and we do not believe that any people—whether minority, majority, or individual human beings—are “expendable” in the cause of theory or policy. We recognize also that justice between men and nations…
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Speech at the National Council of Christians and Jews
Today’s problems of intolerance are harder than yesterday’s; tomorrow’s will be harder still.
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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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