Quotes
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
We must reach out as well to those who have been passed by in the past—those already out of school, the fathers and mothers of young children, the unemployed and the abandoned of this entire nation.
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Address at the American Medical Center Judy Holliday Memorial Dinner, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City
Old age is something that happens to everybody, and if we are wise enough and unselfish enough and effective enough, then we can make those years a time in which to live, not just linger.
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Statement
The right of agricultural workers around the country to organize into unions and bargain collectively has now been recognized in the fields of one grower in California
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Statement Before Students in Peru
We are finding that it is not enough to feed and clothe and house a man—or even to give him work. Instead we are finding that the most important thing is to help men to help themselves. This is the most difficult task of all.
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
On a trip to Latin America last year, I saw people in Recife, in the poorest part of Brazil, who ate crabs which lived off the garbage that the people themselves threw in the shallow water near their shabby homes.
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Speech at Indiana University Medical School
Let me say something about the tenor of that question and some of the other questions. There are people in this country who suffer. I look around this room and I don’t see many black faces who are going to be doctors
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
The time for studies is past. The time to apply what we already know is here. Economic progress may reduce cost rates. But we all pay for air pollution now, every day.
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