Economic Equality
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
Opportunity denied or opportunity delayed—often one and the same—is not a question of color. One-tenth of our population is Negro. But a much larger portion of our total population, closer to one-fifth, is poor.
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Address Delivered to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates, San Francisco, California
Legal services, particularly defense in criminal cases, are not like houses or automobiles where those with more money can buy better products without affecting the basic functioning of society. When one defendant cannot afford a complete defense, justice is being rationed.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
It is for us now, in New York and Alabama and all over the nation, to create new kinds of systems, for education and health, and work and housing; systems which will bring one fifth of America, for the first time, into the 20th century, into a society which creates and opens new opportunities even…
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Address at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
When Marshall McLuhan told us that in this century, ” the medium is the message, ” he was doing more than merely giving us a phrase to go with “Keep the faith, baby.”
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
We have a responsibility to ourselves, to the next generation to consider the future.
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Address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Banquet, New York
I believe the solution to the problems of our urban ghettoes must begin with a determination and a program.
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Address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Banquet, New York
We have asked the people of our urban ghettos to the breakfast of hope; but the supper of fulfillment we eat without them. Breakfast has long ago been eaten and hunger again walks the streets. It is time to make room at the table.
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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.
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
It is sometimes said that the decline in total net farm income is not so bad because more than 2 and 1/2 million farmers have left the land since World War I
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Address at the Cornell University Agricultural Leaders’ Forum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The word “rural” no longer means what it once did for us
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
Education is not only important to understanding the world and each other
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Speech at the University of Alabama
Education is the key to jobs—to income—to human dignity itself . . . In the last analysis the quality of education is a question of commitment—of whether people like us are willing to go into the classrooms as teachers or parents, as volunteers or just as concerned citizens, to ensure that every child learns to…
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