The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

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

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

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.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.