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What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 27
Died: 1978
Died: January 13
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
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If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.
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There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.
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Our greatest songs are still unsung.
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As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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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.
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More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
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I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
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What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
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If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.
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