Human Rights Education
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Speech in Chicago
Tags Share However wise our efforts may be in unconventional diplomacy and unconventional warfare, however sensible our diversity of weapons and strategy, however great our military power and determined our counteroffensive of ideas, there is yet another obstacle to our opening to the future. That is the image of the future we project by our…
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Speech in Chicago
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. It assumes that people, and nations will often think differently, have the full right to do so, and that diversity is the source of progress
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
Freedom by itself is not enough. “Freedom is a good horse,” said Matthew Arnold, “but a horse to ride somewhere.” What counts is the use to which men put freedom; what counts is how liberty becomes the means of opportunity and growth and justice.
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
There can be no freedom from want without freedom of opportunity; there can be no freedom of opportunity without freedom to learn; there can be no freedom from fear unless each of the other freedoms is attained.
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
We believe that freedom has but one message though it speaks in many tongues.
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Address at the American Jewish Congress, New York City
It is the ideal of freedom which underlies our great concern for civil rights. Nations around the world look to us for leadership not merely by strength of arms but by the strength of our convictions. We not only want, but we need, the free exercise of rights by every American. We need the strength…
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Address at the Seattle World’s Fair
We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor;
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Speech at the New Hampshire Democratic State Convention
A Democratic Administration in Washington found the United States second in space, second in education, last among all the industrial nations of the world, and economic growth—and now the United States is first in space, first in education, first in economic growth.
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
The commitment of young people, I believe, is our greatest resource.
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Speech Delivered at the Democratic State Committee Dinner in Columbus, Ohio
In this entire century the Democratic party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it. For there is much to dissent from. We dissent from the fact that millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich.
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Remarks Delivered at the University of Southern California Convocation
The right to criticize carries with it a responsibility— to study the facts, to be fully informed . . .
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