Speeches
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Address to the National Committee for Children and Youth Conference in Unemployed
Tags Share Many people have asked me what connection the Department of Justice has with a conference on unemployment concerning out-of-school youths in urban areas. You may be wondering too. The reason is: Today, the Department of Justice, through the Bureau of Prisons, is providing institutional care and treatment for more than five thousand juvenile…
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Address at Law Day Ceremonies, University of Georgia
Tags Share For the first time since becoming attorney general, over three months ago, I am making something approaching a formal speech and I am proud that it is in Georgia…They have told me that when you speak in Georgia you should try to tie yourself to Georgia and the South, and even better, claim…
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New England Democratic Meeting
Tags Share At the outset of this meeting of Democratic Party leaders of New England, we should discard any trace of the false notion that Senator Kennedy is assured of victory in his native region merely because he is one of its sons. The political truths of the last three presidential elections must guide our…
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Address to the American Trucking Associations
Tags Share There is a compelling need for a reevaluation of our public attitudes toward political life. The national attitude that politics is somehow a degrading occupation for which no man of intelligence or ambition should aspire is becoming too deeply ingrained in our national thinking. There have been many jokes directed at politics. I…
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Speech at the Inland Daily Press Association
Tags Share I very much appreciate your invitation to be here today and discuss with you some of the problems we have uncovered so far in our investigation, as well as some of the areas in which legislation is being considered. The committee…has heard over 250 different witnesses in some 130 sessions. We have received…
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Lecture on Soviet Central Asia
Tags Share In relation to its size and the antiquity of its history, the West knows less of Soviet Central Asia than any part of the civilized world. Its size of over one and a half million square miles makes it an area larger than India before partition and bigger than all of Western Europe.…
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Speech at the United Auto Workers Regional conference
Tags Share Tonight I want to speak with you not about labor unions, but about the common future of those who labor; about what has too often happened to the great American dream, and about how we can bring new opportunities to millions of Americans. The Americans of whom I speak, however, are not the…
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Speech at the Borough President’s Conference of Community Leaders
Tags Share Since the dawn of their freedom a century ago, Negro Americans have been advised to “cast down your bucket where you are.” But those who offered this advice too often did not bother to look at whether its recipient was standing by a river of opportunity—or in the midst of a desert from…
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Speech at the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
Tags Share My remarks today are the first in a series of three speeches about one major aspect of the unfinished business that is ahead: the quality of life for the Negro in the urban areas of the North. I do not mean to downgrade the problems that remain in the South. But my purpose…
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Tribute to John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention
Tags Share Mr. Chairman, I wish to speak just for a few moments. I first want to thank all of you delegates to the Democratic National Convention and the supporters of the Democratic Party for all that you did for President John F. Kennedy. I want to express my appreciation to you for the efforts…
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