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"A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny."
"This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, brain power, and kinetic energy."

- Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, July 12, 1976

"What the people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise."

- Harvard University Commencement Address, June 16, 1977

"Justice of right is always to take precedence over might."
"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."

- Remarks at "The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique," a symposium sponsored by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, April 1985