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Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes
«There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
at issue, civil, civil right, civil rights, issue, rushing, rush out
«If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
dissatisfaction, ferment, fermented, hard to please, pleased, restlessness, status
«The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
detour, detours, goodwill, intentions, paved, senate, senates, The Detours, the Senate
«People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
businessmen, classified, classify, decent, Diplomats, exotic, futures, Human dignity, human voice, languages, mastery, pronounce, spell, standard, their own language, very much
«The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
architect, cathedral, concept, execution, executions, labors, pursuit, resembles, The Building, The Cathedral
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
American state, American Woman, America Today, converting, distinctive, diversities, diversity, fortunately, homogenized, homogenizing, liked, mature, melting, melting pot, passed, pot, richer, standardized, stranded, strands, The Strand, welcome, woven
«Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
discrimination, emancipation, inadequacies, inadequacy, liberalism, prejudice
«The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
consequence, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, envision, envisioned, envisioning, heat, heroes, prospect, prospecting, The United Nations, United Nations, withdraw, withdrawing, withdraws
«We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice / however much we might desire it.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
bigotry, court decision, court of law, criteria, establish, learnt, oppression, point the way, racism, right and wrong, rooting, wipe, wipe away