In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands.
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
I love this city. If I’m elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman’s Wharf and they even let me into Allioto’s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it’s Resurrection City.
The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
In my judgment, the slogan “black power” and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.