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" I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances. "

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" President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed. "

" I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. "

" To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds. "

" All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. "

" President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life. "

" I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister. "

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. "

" It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort. "

" In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe. "

" One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. "

" Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. "

" Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. "

" Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. "

" Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. "

" If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. "

" The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away. "

" We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy. "

" In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society. "

" Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? "

" The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. "

" Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root. "

" The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant. "

" The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life. "

" I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can. "

" Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. "

" It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity. "

" In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures. "

" A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all. "

" In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts. "