Quotes
-
Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
We are going to be held responsible for the failures and difficulties of Latin America. In many cases, this will be justified: we are further advanced; we are more fortunate
-
Address at the Irish Institute, April 1, 1967
The time is long past when men bowed their heads or looked away from our heritage because of shame; indeed, the long roll of Senators and playwrights, poets and heroes, has given us full reason for pride.
-
Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
Almost every man now working in the United States will have to change jobs, perhaps two or three times, and his lifetime. That will require new education for all our people—for those who could not complete college in the past, and even those who did.
-
Speech in Chicago
Equality of justice in our courts should never depend upon the defendant’s wealth or lack of resources, but in all honesty we must admit that we have failed frequently to avoid such a result.
-
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.
-
Speech at the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois
What is the price tag on equal justice under law? Has simple justice a price which we as a profession must exact? Is that what we have come to?
-
Address, Portland City Club, Portland, Oregon
The rule of law in an open society still is a revolutionary ideal throughout much of the world. Our strength to transpose this ideal into reality throughout the world must depend over the years on our dedication to it at home.
-
Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Thus I was pleased as attorney general to be able to establish a new office of Criminal Justice in the department to deal with the whole spectrum of the criminal process, from arrest to rehabilitation.
-
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
-
Address at the Society of Friends of Puerto Rico Eugenio Maria de Hostos “One-America” Award Dinner, New York City
The dispossessed and the landless will not strive and sacrifice to improve land they do not own, and whose proceeds they do not share.
-
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…
Share