We must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.
Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963
“Today I may be the victim--but tomorrow it may be you”
Today I may be the victim--but tomorrow it may be you--until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril.
Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960
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One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed form the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed for social and economic oppression. And this nation for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
“These are matters which concern us all”
It seems to me that these are matters which concern us all, not merely Presidents or Congressmen or Governors, but every citizen of the United States.
Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
