Today, with my signature, this system is abolished.
The dedication of America to our traditions as an asylum for the oppressed is going to be upheld.
This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of t...
The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another.
So it is in that spirit that I declare this afternoon to the people of Cuba that those who seek refuge here in America w...
The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood.
The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied.
When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from.
Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of ...
We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice a...
It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation.
I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Governme...
I have directed the Departments of State and Justice and Health, Education, and Welfare to immediately make all the nece...
Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons.
This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.
Our first concern will be with those Cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husb...
There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.
There is no excuse for a river flowing red with blood from slaughterhouses.
