In this entire century the Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were. We have won when we pledged to meet the new challenges of each succeeding year. We have triumphed not in spite of controversy, but because of it; not because we avoided problems, but because we faced them. We have won, not because we bent and diluted our principles, but because we stood fast to the ideals which represent the most noble and generous portion of the American spirit.

'If men do not build,' asks the poet, 'how shall they live?' (12-10-1966)

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of ot…

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large cit…

Violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

The party is ready to lead the country out of the unstable racial situation it is in to a united, stable and harmonious nation to ensure there is social, polit…

Nor are liberal ideals alone sufficient: Ours is a practical people, to whom ideals furnish the theory of political action, upon which they want not only firm …