-
I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.
Topics
- Opportunity
- People
- Champion
- Black
- Abuse
- Progress
- President
- Human Rights
- Black People
- Discrimination
- Environment
- Restraint
- Racial Discrimination
- Able
- Basic Human Rights
- Class
- Ends
- Enormous
- Equality Of Opportunity
- Government
- Humans
- Principles
- Rights
- Should
- States
- Two
- United
- United States
- White
- Basic Principles
- Convinced
- Inferiors
- South
- Superiors
Cite this Page: Citation