Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

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.