Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Category: Children
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Category: Cities And City Life
There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
Category: Civil Rights
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Category: Congress
When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.
Category: Controversy
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Category: Debate
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.
Category: Democracy
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Category: Dissatisfaction
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
Category: Economy And Economics
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Category: Example
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Category: Freedom
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Category: Friends And Friendship
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.
Category: Heresy
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Category: Human Spirit
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.
Category: Individuality