Humphrey

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    Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity—an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)