Quotes
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Address at the University College of Buffalo Commencement, Buffalo, New York
Around the world— from the straits of Magellan to the straits of Malacca, from the Nile Delta to the Amazon basin, in Jaipur and Johannesburg—
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Speech at Idaho State University
We must realize that the system from which we have sent a disproportionate number of Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Indians to fight in Vietnam is a faulty one.
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Remarks to medical students on federally subsidized healthcare
The students fired off questions challenging Kennedy on medical care for the poor, which they characterized as too expensive, unnecessary, or best left to the marketplace. Ultimately a student asked, “Where are you going to get all the money for these federally subsidized programs you’re talking about?”
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and experience.
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Address at the Americans for Democratic Action Dinner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Here in America today, perhaps the clearest mirror of our performance, the truest measure of whether we live up to our ideals, is our youth.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In the United Nations we are striving to establish a rule of law instead of a rule of force. In that forum and elsewhere around the world our deeds will speak for us.
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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people—speaking out—in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out— in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes— let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.
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Speech in Worthington, Minnesota
Education, the rebirth of rural America, recapturing this nation for individual and community effort—these are great visions, the heart of the task that lies ahead of all of us— Easterners and Westerners, men of the city and men of the farm.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
To understand the causes is not to permit the result. No man has the right to wantonly menace the safety and well-being of his neighbors. All citizens have the right to security in the streets of their community—in Birmingham or in Los Angeles. And it is the duty of all public officials to keep the…
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
Surely the world has seen enough, in the last forty years of violence and hatred. Surely we have seen enough of the attempt to justify present injustice by past slights, or to punish the unjust by making the world more unjust.
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