A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggre...ssion, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor....... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most p...rominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume ...thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover America...s nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... they think that Miss America belongs to them! That they can touch her and give her a kiss on the cheek--or even on the lips!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality--that there's been a revolution in American life. Gran...dma doesn't live next door anymore, Mom doesn't work just because she'd like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »