I want the Government of all of the people to speak with a single voice on this single question.
I want to thank each and every one of you who has spent an hour or a dollar with the Urban League, because it is through...
One of the Presidents that I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago.
It shall be my purpose and it is my duty to make it a fact.
Well, I am here to say to you tonight that I do not agree.
I just do not agree.
For, as the problem of civil rights has grown in urgency, it has also grown in complexity.
We are going to not just establish a Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke to recommend steps to reduce the inc...
We must begin to think about the future--about the year 2000--about the foundations we must put in place for a larger, m...
In coming to Washington, as you are now, you are tracing steps I myself once walked-as a 27-year-old new Member of the H...
I welcome this opportunity to work with you in this historic period.
We shall need to be--as Americans have always been--prudent and practical in what we undertake.
Heart disease, cancer, and stroke can be conquered--not in a millennium, not in a century, but in the next few onrushing...
Will Rogers once made a very wise observation. He said: 'We are a funny people. We elect our Presidents, be they Republi...
Through most of my career--and through most of your adult lives--the thrust of our public policies and attitudes has bee...
Today our system, our society--and our Government, of which you are soon to be part--stand as the most successful in the...
Unless we can do better, two-thirds of all Americans now living will suffer or will die from cancer, from heart disease,...
Above all, I urge the American people to heed the conclusions of this Commission.
