The Purpose Of Life Is To Contribute

All Do Not Develop In The Same Manner, Or At The Same Pace. Nations, Like Men, Often March To The Beat Of Different Drummers, And The Precise Solutions Of The United States Can Neither Be Dictated Nor Transplanted To Others. What Is Important Is That All Nations Must March Toward Increasing Freedom; Toward Justice For All; Toward A Society Strong And Flexible Enough To Meet The Demands Of All Its Own People, And A World Of Immense And Dizzying Change.

There Are People In Every Time And Every Land Who Want To Stop History In Its Tracks. They Fear The Future, Mistrust The Present, And Invoke The Security Of The Comfortable Past Which, In Fact, Never Existed.

We Must Recognize The Full Human Equality Of All Our People - Before God, Before The Law, And In The Councils Of Government. We Must Do This Not Because It Is Economically Advantageous - Although It Is; Not Because The Laws Of God And Man Command It - Although They Do Command It; Not Because People In Other Lands Wish It So. We Must Do It For The Single And Fundamental Reason That It Is The Right Thing To Do.

Too Much And Too Long, We Seem To Have Surrendered Community Excellence And Community Values In The Mere Accumulation Of Material Things.

If Freedom Makes Social Progress Possible, So Social Progress Strengthens And Enlarges Freedom. The Two Are Inseparable Partners In The Great Adventure Of Humanity.