Propaganda, To Be Effective, Must Be Believed.

You Can Always Debate About What You Should Have Done. The Question Is What Are You Going To Do?

We Should Have Learnt By Now That Laws And Court Decisions Can Only Point The Way. They Can Establish Criteria Of Right And Wrong. And They Can Provide A Basis For Rooting Out The Evils Of Bigotry And Racism. But They Cannot Wipe Away Centuries Of Oppression And Injustice - However Much We Might Desire It.

It Is Not Enough To Merely Defend Democracy. To Defend It May Be To Lose It; To Extend It Is To Strengthen It. Democracy Is Not Property; It Is An Idea.

It Is All Too Easy For A Society To Measure Itself Against Some Abstract Philosophical Principle Or Political Slogan. But In The End, There Must Remain The Question: What Kind Of Life Is One Society Providing To The People That Live In It?

My Friends, To Those Who Say That We Are Rushing This Issue Of Civil Rights, I Say To Them We Are 172 Years Late. To Those Who Say That This Civil-rights Program Is An Infringement On States’ Rights, I Say This: The Time Has Arrived In America For The Democratic Party To Get Out Of The Shadow Of States' Rights And To Walk Forthrightly Into The Bright Sunshine Of Human Rights.