What You Do, What Each Of Us

American Public Opinion Is Like An Ocean, It Cannot Be Stirred By A Teaspoon.

Capital, And The Question Of Who Owns It And Therefore Reaps The Benefit Of Its Productiveness, Is An Extremely Important Issue That Is Complementary To The Issue Of Full Employment... I See These As Twin Pillars Of Our Economy: Full Employment Of Our Labor Resources And Widespread Ownership Of Our Capital Resources. Such Twin Pillars Would Go A Long Way In Providing A Firm Underlying Support For Future Economic Growth That Would Be Equitably Shared.

It Is All Too Easy For A Society To Measure Itself Against Some Abstract Philosophical Principle Or Political Slogan. But In The End, There Must Remain The Question: What Kind Of Life Is One Society Providing To The People That Live In It?

In Real Life, Unlike In Shakespeare, The Sweetness Of The Rose Depends Upon The Name It Bears. Things Are Not Only What They Are. They Are, In Very Important Respects, What They Seem To Be.

We Should Have Learnt By Now That Laws And Court Decisions Can Only Point The Way. They Can Establish Criteria Of Right And Wrong. And They Can Provide A Basis For Rooting Out The Evils Of Bigotry And Racism. But They Cannot Wipe Away Centuries Of Oppression And Injustice - However Much We Might Desire It.