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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
To say that the future will be different from the present and past may be hopelessly self-evident. I must observe regretfully, however, that in politics it can be heresy. It can be denounced as radicalism or branded as subversion.
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Speech at the Dedication of Kendrick Hall at the University of San Francisco Law School, San Francisco, California
Since the days of Greece and Rome when the word “citizen” was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. And today, as never before in the free world, responsibility is the greatest right of citizenship and service is the greatest of freedom’s…
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
There is simply not enough room in the big cities; and it is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people
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Statement to Senate
The issues which we face in our cities go to the question of the survival of our society. They deserve the highest priority consideration.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
Even as in the drive toward bigness and concentration, the city has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
The future of our relations with China may lie beyond our vision but it is not completely beyond our control.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
It is still true that a non-white mother is four times as likely to die in childbirth as a white mother. There are 2.6 deaths per 10,000 live white births. The figure for nonwhites is 10.2 deaths.
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