11 quotes
Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
We must learn to judge people, not by their color or race or creed, but rather by their worth as human beings.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
The struggle against racial intolerance and racial discrimination and bigotry must be waged everywhere in the world wherever such immoral and ugly practices exist.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
Free labor understands and acts in the knowledge the the struggle for peace and the struggle for human freedom are inseparably tied together with the struggle for social justice.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
Democratic nations must seek and find unity in diversity, while Communists achieve unity through conformity.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
The great challenge before us is to find a way to use the bright promise of science and technology in a massive retaliation against poverty, hunger, and social injustice in the world.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
The great challenge before us is to find a way to get people and nations working together in the positive and rewarding task of peace as they have repeatedly joined together in the senseless and destructive waging of war.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
We believe that it is not enough to fight against the things that we oppose—we must fight with equal courage and equal dedication for the things that we believe in.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
Just as the moral and spiritual power of Gandhi won in Indian, so American Negroes shall win in America, and they shall take their place as free and equal citizens in the family of American democracy.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
I have been saying for a long time that I believe the more young Americans who are trained to join with other young people in the world to be sent abroad with slide rule, textbook, and medical kit to help people help themselves with the tools of peace, the fewer young people will need to be sent with guns and weapons of war.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
If the peoples of great nations can work, sacrifice, fight, and die together because they share common fears and common hatreds in war, why can we not find a way to tap the great spiritual reservoir that lies deep within each of us and get people and nations working, sacrificing, and building together in peacetime because they share common hopes and common aspirations.
Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)