 | James Sundquist - Political Science - 2010 - 582 pages
...passed. In a speech that was in part extemporaneous and in part a Sorensen draft,132 Kennedy said: We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It...scriptures and is as clear as the American constitution We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Finance, Public - 1972 - 890 pages
...Kennedy's words at the time of the Birmingham crisis: Laws alone cannot make men right—we Americans are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is...all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. ... It... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Ways and Means - 1972 - 328 pages
...Kennedy's words at the time of the Birmingham crisis: Laws alone cannot make men right — we Americans are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is...all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. ... It... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Taxation - 1973 - 512 pages
...Kennedy's words at the time of the Birmingham crisis: Laws alone cannot make men right — we Americans are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is...all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. ... It... | |
 | Jennifer L. Hochschild, Joseph Hochschild - Education - 1984 - 284 pages
...speech in June 1963, after the Birmingham protest marchers had been met with police dogs and fire hoses: We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It...be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities. . . . We face therefore a moral crisis as a country and as a people. ... It cannot be quieted by token... | |
 | John Ehrenreich - History - 1985 - 284 pages
...on radio and television, he told the nation: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. . . . The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal responsibilities."1 A few days later he sent to Congress a bill to ban discrimination in all places... | |
 | Edward G. Carmines, James A. Stimson - History - 1989 - 242 pages
...the side of the civil rights forces. He concluded his televised address with an emotion-filled plea: We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It...scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. ... If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public,... | |
 | Theodore Rueter - Political Science - 1995 - 440 pages
...the side of the civil rights forces. He concluded his televised address with an emotion-filled plea: We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It...scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. ... If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public,... | |
 | Carl Albert - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 414 pages
...would submit, but he added that the nation faced not "a legal or legislative issue alone" but rather "a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. . . . Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing... | |
 | Edward P. Morgan - History - 1991 - 386 pages
...president went before a nationwide television audience to propose his major civil rights initiative. "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It...heart of the question is whether all Americans are going to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities; whether we are going to treat our fellow... | |
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We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. 
