I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.