
Radio and television report to the American people on civil rights (11 June 1963)]
1963, Civil Rights Address
radio address https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/11/20081101.html (1 November 2008)
2000s, 2008
Radio and television report to the American people on civil rights (11 June 1963)]
1963, Civil Rights Address
Regarding comments made by Trent Lott (12 December 2002), as quoted in "Lott's Remarks on Segregation 'Wrong and Offensive'" https://web.archive.org/web/20150921020713/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/lott-remarks-on-segregation-wrong-and-offensive-1.1107399 (13 December 2002), The Irish Times
2000s, 2002
Nobel lecture (2001)
Context: The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. It is the nearest thing we have to a representative institution that can address the interests of all states, and all peoples. Through this universal, indispensable instrument of human progress, States can serve the interests of their citizens by recognizing common interests and pursuing them in unity.
1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)
2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
“The idea which pervades our Constitution; that all men of every race are equal before the laws.”
Source: Speech (June 1853), p. 79
1960s, Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate