60 ordspråk av Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey föddes den
May 27th 1911 och dog den 13 January
1978 - under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78).
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
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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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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
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They can either meet those terms at a bargaining table, or they can put their fate in the hands of 12 Minnesotans,
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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To settle with the tobacco companies before we have all the facts, including the industry's self-proclaimed 'privileged' documents, is to buy the proverbial pig in a poke,
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Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting.
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
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We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
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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.
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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 problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.
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