In the event of inability the President would--if possible--so inform the Vice President, and the Vice President would s...
Today, with my signature, this system is abolished.
The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied.
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...
Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons.
Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of ...
This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.
I have directed the Departments of State and Justice and Health, Education, and Welfare to immediately make all the nece...
I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Governme...
Our first concern will be with those Cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husb...
We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice a...
The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood.
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...
It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation.
When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from.
The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another.
Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers.
