I call upon the members of this Council to meet as often as necessary, to recommend whatever actions need to be taken, a...
For, as the problem of civil rights has grown in urgency, it has also grown in complexity.
Well, I am here to say to you tonight that I do not agree.
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.
I want the Government of all of the people to speak with a single voice on this single question.
I just do not agree.
Our first objective will always be to assure nondiscriminatory operation rather than to put an end to programs which are...
Unless we can do better, two-thirds of all Americans now living will suffer or will die from cancer, from heart disease,...
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...
Heart disease, cancer, and stroke can be conquered--not in a millennium, not in a century, but in the next few onrushing...
Above all, I urge the American people to heed the conclusions of this Commission.
Today our system, our society--and our Government, of which you are soon to be part--stand as the most successful in the...
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...
We shall need to be--as Americans have always been--prudent and practical in what we undertake.
This is no small challenge. Small men with small horizons could never be adequate to that challenge.
