The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have..

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Profes….

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler,….

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it..

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to….

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free..

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a sp….

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 s….

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dol….

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumi….

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate..

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights..

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect..

Never give up on anybody..

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work..

Our greatest songs are still unsung..

National isolation breeds national neurosis..

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true..

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college..

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life..