This, Then, Is The Test We Must

We Live By Hope. We Do Not Ever Get All We Want When We Want It. But We Have To Believe That Someday, Somehow, Some Way, It Will Be Better And That We Can Make It So.

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.

In The Minds And Hearts Of The American People, There Is A Great Hunger For Peace Based On A Universal Recognition Of The Values Of Freedom And Human Dignity.

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?

Slumism Is The Pent-up Anger Of People Living On The Outside Of Affluence. Slumism Is Decay Of Structure And Deterioration Of The Human Spirit. Slumism Is A Virus Which Spreads Through The Body Politic. As Other "isms," It Breeds Disorder And Demagoguery And Hate.