Economic Equality
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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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Speech Prepared for Delivery at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
We will, in a sense, have to make of the United States a vast continuing educational system
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Speech in Chicago
Education is basic to the future of this nation. When thousands of our citizens are afforded only inferior educational opportunities, they suffer a loss which can never be compensated and the whole country is subjected to unnecessary social and economic waste.
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
What is our educational commitment? In principle, our commitment has been that every child should have an adequate education. But if we mean our commitment
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
The commitment of young people, I believe, is our greatest resource.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Our goal is to assist local communities in their efforts to coordinate and develop their resources of preventing delinquency. The Federal Government can and must provide the leverage for work that no agency or community could ever hope to do alone.
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Address Delivered at the Mayor Burns Testimonial, Binghamton, New York
he Democratic Party has had many causes, and called them by many names: the New Freedom of Wilson; the New Deal of Roosevelt; the Fair Deal of Truman; the New Frontier; the Great Society. But all of these programs have had at their heart an active commitment to individual liberty and individual freedom.
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Speech Delivered Before the New York Democratic State Committee
The Democratic Party must make a major effort to involve itself with the social and economic problems of the States on the local as well as state-wide level.
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Address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Banquet, New York
Reliance on government is dependence—and what the people of our ghettoes need is not greater dependence, but full independence; not the charity and favor of their fellow citizens, but equal claims of right and equal power to enforce those claims.
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