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We should have learnt by now t...

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.

Hubert Humphrey 152 quotes

Certainly one of the chief gua...

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always po

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The ugliness of bigotry stands...

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

Hubert Humphrey 152 quotes

History teaches us that the gr...

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

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Slumism is the pent-up anger o...

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.

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Capital, and the question of w...

Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.

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I do not feel that we should a...

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

Hubert Humphrey 152 quotes

We cannot use a double standar...

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

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What you do, what each of us d...

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

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To those who say, my friends, ...

To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years [too] late! To those who say, 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 walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights!

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It the Senator can find in Tit...

It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

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Fortunately, the time has long...

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

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Just be what you are and speak...

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

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We will have to decide today w...

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

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The road to freedom, here and ...

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

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If I believe in something, I w...

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

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I've never thought my speeches...

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

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Surely anyone who has ever bee...

Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

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Our opposition will never unde...

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America

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If today there is a proper Ame...

If today there is a proper American 'sphere of influence' it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

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