Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.