Economic Equality
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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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Speech Delivered at Sioux City, Des Moines, Marion and Dubuque, Iowa
I believe the time has already come when the first two years of college—just like elementary school or high school—should be free to all qualified students.
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Speech at Academy of Trial Lawyers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The legitimate purpose of bail is to ensure that defendants appear for trial. It has been distorted into systematic injustice. Every year thousands of persons are kept in jail for weeks and even months following arrest.
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Remarks, Introducing Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, U.S. Senate
To rely exclusively, even primarily, on government efforts is not only to ignore the shaping traditions of American life and politics, but to ignore the potential contribution of private enterprise is to fight the war on poverty with a single platoon, while great armies are left to stand aside.
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Address, Testimonial Dinner for Lieutenant Governor Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin
The challenges and the dreams touch every man and woman and child in America—and in the world. There is challenge in automation, which could mean widespread permanent unemployment in this country
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