Into the

Bright Sunshine
An Introduction to Hubert H. Humphrey

Compiled and edited by Cyrus Segawa Konstantinakos

Assistant Director, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Boston University
with assistance from Anne L. Howard Tristani, Niece of Hubert H. Humphrey
and Family Representative to the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program

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 Hubert H. Humphrey dedicated his life to promoting global peace
and security and intercultural friendship. He spearheaded initiatives
such as Food for Peace, the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of
1964, and the Peace Corps. He conceived and brokered the Civil
Rights Act of 1964the most important human rights legislation
in American historyand paved the way for other legislation that
protects and expands opportunities for the elderly, the disabled, and
the poor.

These and other achievements are featured in this volume to pro-

vide Humphrey Fellows at Boston University a brief introduction to
the namesake of the Humphrey Fellowship Program.

Compiled and edited by Cyrus Segawa Konstantinakos, Assistant Director of the Hubert H. Humphrey
Fellowship Program at Boston University, with assistance from Anne L. Howard Tristani, niece of Hubert H.
Humphrey and Humphrey Family representative to the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program.
Additional assistance provided by Boston University Humphrey Fellowship Program student interns Jessica
Hinson-Williams, Alexander Babcock, Mike Liu, and Tasia Rechisky.

All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, republished, or redistributed without
prior written permission from The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Boston University.

For inquiries, please contact:

Cyrus Konstantinakos, Editor
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Boston University
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Boston, Massachusetts 02215

www.bu.edu/hhh

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Contents

1. People Are People ...................................... 4

2. Prelude to Civil Rights .............................. 6

3. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ..................... 8

4. Food for Peace ............................................. 10

5. Nuclear Test Ban & Disarmament ......... 12

6. The Peace Corps ......................................... 14

7. The Moral Test of Government .............. 16

8. The Healing Power of Love ..................... 18

9. Bibliography ................................................. 20

10. Gallery ........................................................... 22

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 Into The Bright Sunshine
People Are People: The Early Years
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. grew up in a town of less than one hundred people
on the prairie farmlands of South Dakota. His father, a pharmacist and local mayor,
instilled in him a fundamental belief in the goodness and connectedness of all people.
My dad used to tell me that the lowliest man in town might be the man you need
someday. He let me believe that people are basically goodand that you ought to look
for the goodness in them ... I guess we were just brought up to believe that people are
people.
Humphrey entered the University of Minnesota in 1929 but soon dropped out to help
his family survive the Great Depression. In South Dakota, economic troubles were
compounded by intense heat, drought, and dust storms. As Humphrey recalls, peo-
ple walked around holding a wet handkerchief over mouth and nose. The heat was
frightful and the dust was everywhere, filtering through the tiniest crack around a win-
dow or door, leaving a layer of grime on curtains and furniture. After the dust came
the grasshoppers, which literally ate the paint off houses since the land was so barren.
Sometimes I thought it was the end of the world.
Humphrey eventually completed his BA in 1939 and then entered a masters program at
Louisiana State University. There, he was shocked by the rampant, racial discrimination
of the 1930s American South. I was dismayed by what I saw: the white, neatly painted
houses of the whites, the unpainted shacks of the blacks [...] When I discovered the
WHITE and COLORED signs for drinking fountains and toilets, I found them both
ridiculous and offensive.
Such experiences cultivated in Humphrey a deeper empathy for people who suffer from
poverty and inequality, which would guide his legislative work over the next four de-
cades. During his tenure as a mayor, a U.S. senator, and vice president, Humphrey ini-
tiated hundreds of laws, policies, and programs that have made the entire world safer,
fairer, and more humane.
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 Into The Bright Sunshine

Prelude to Civil Rights At the age of thirty-four, Hubert Humphrey was elected mayor of Minneapolisthen
a city rife with antisemitism and racial discrimination. It was a politically dangerous
time to challenge such norms, but in his first inaugural address Humphrey declared,
government can no longer ignore displays of bigotry, violence, and discrimination.
He called for a ban on job discrimination based on religion and ethnicity and set up the
volunteer-based Mayors Council on Human Relations, an initiative that attracted over
500 volunteers who promoted citywide strategies to end all forms of discrimination.
One such strategy involved the creation of a Pledge for American Unity, which coun-
cil members posted in police stations, libraries, bus terminals, and other public places.

Neither Free Nor Equal (excerpts from a 1947 radio address)

We in America bear a heavy burden on our conscience because of the bitter fact that millions of
our fellow citizens are neither free nor equal in their enjoyment of the blessings of democracy.
Most of us are decent, kindly, justice-loving people. We take our conscience seriously. When we
are faced squarely with an issue, the great majority of Americans recognize injustice and vig-
orously oppose it. But nowhere have we so shamefully blinded ourselves to the issues and made
excuses for our sins as in our practice of prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race, reli-
gion, and national origin.

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We often hear people say, Dont let anyone of that group move into our neighbor-
hood; theyll be happier in their own area, or Those people dont really want an
education, or Theyll be happier if they are kept in jobs that dont involve any re-
sponsibility. That kind of talk reveals the speakers own prejudices and represents
an attempt to justify them. By such rationalization he seeks to remove his feeling
of guilt for the injustices he is doing to his fellow citizens. He is trying to evade
the issue as to whether or not we are going to accord to every individual the digni-
ty and freedom and opportunity to which his character and capacity entitle him.

The way in which we deal with our neighbors and fellow citizens in our own
communities will serve as the measure of our capacity to prevent the destruction
of our civilization and to gain time to build a sane and peaceful world.

Humphrey transformed Minneapolis into a saferand inclusive city, and

for that he was reelected by the widest margin in the citys history. He A water container designated for "colored"
was also invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 1948. patrons at an Oklahoma bus station in 1939

At that time, President Truman was trailing in the polls and needing support from southern Democrats, most
of whom opposed civil rights legislation. Trumans aides cautioned Humphrey not to press that issue in his
speech, but Humphrey defied them, risking his and his partys future. Here is an excerpt from that speech:

There will be no hedging, and there will be no watering down, if you please, of the instruments and the principles of the
civil rights program. To those who say we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late! To those
who say that this civil rights program is an infringement on states rights, I say this: the time has arrived in America for the
Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights!

Humphrey speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 1948

Humphrey led the Democratic Party to embrace a

strong civil rights platform, but southern state del-
egates walked out during his speech and formed
their own party. They knew they could not win the
presidency; their aim was to punish Democrats for
supporting civil rights. Truman was nevertheless
re-electedand his victory constituted the first step
in a movement that transformed American culture,
politics and engagement with the outside world. Excerpt of Humphreys hand-annotated 1948 DNC speech

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 Into The Bright Sunshine
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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In 1948, the southern delegates went on to form their own party with South Carolina
Governor Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate.
Sixteen years later, CBS invited Humphrey and Thurmond to debate the civil rights bill
that Humphrey had lead authored just weeks before the Senate was scheduled to vote
on it. Here are excerpts from Humphreys and Thurmonds opening remarks:
Hubert H. Humphrey
Each American knows that the promises of free-
dom and equal treatment found in the Constitution
and laws of this country are not being fulfilled for
millions of our Negro citizens and other minority
groups. Deep in our hearts we knowwe know
that such denials of civil rights, which weve heard
about and witnessed, are still taking place today.
And we know that as long as freedom and equality
are denied to anyone, it weakens all of us.
There is indisputable evidence that fellow Ameri-
cans who happen to be Negro have been denied the
right to vote in flagrant fashion. And we know that
fellow Americans who happen to be Negro have
been denied equal access to places of public accom-
modationdenied in their travels the chance for a
place to rest and to eat and to relax. We know that,
one decade after the Supreme Courts decision de-
claring school segregation to be unconstitutional,
less than two percent of southern school districts
are desegregated. And we know that Negroes do not
enjoy equal employment opportunities; frequently
they are the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
The time has come for us to correct these evils.
Long ago, in 1948, when I introduced the civil
rights plank at the Democratic Convention, a fel-
low delegate said to me, Why are you mixed up in
this? You have no Negroes to speak of in Minneso-
ta; you dont owe them anything. I told him then,
and I say to you sixteen years later, that I got mixed
up in civil rights because I wanted to be able to look
myself in the eyes. I wanted to be at peace with my-
self, with my own conscience. Only when our Negro
citizens have achieved their rightful standing in the
American community can any of us truly feel the
exhilaration that grows from integrity, from dig-
nity. Only then will the United States really be a
community at peace with itself.
Strom Thurmond
This bill would open wide the door for
political favoritism with federal funds.
It would vest the power in various bu-
reaucrats to give or withhold grants,
loans, and contracts on the basis of
who, in the bureaucrats discretion, is
guilty of the undefined crime of dis-
crimination.
It is because of these and other radi-
cal departures from our Constitutional
system that the attempt is being made
to railroad this bill through Congress
without following normal procedures. It
was only after lawless riots and demon-
strations sprang up all over the coun-
try that the administration, after two
years in office, sent this bill to Congress,
where it has been made even worse.
This bill is intended to appease those
waging a vicious campaign of civil
disobedience. The leaders of the demon-
strations have already stated that pas-
sage of the bill will not stop the mobs.
Submitting to intimidation will only
encourage further mob violence and to
gain preferential treatment.
The issue is whether the Senate will
pay the high cost of sacrificing a pre-
cious portion of each and every indi-
viduals Constitutional rights in a vain
effort to satisfy the demands of the mob.
The choice is between law and anarchy.
What shall rule these United States
the Constitution or the mob?
 As the bills floor manager in the Senate, Humphrey overcame a 54-day filibusterthe longest in U.S. history.
The Senate had never overcome a civil-rights filibuster before. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected voting
rights, banned discrimination in public facilities and private businesses offering public services such as lunch
counters, hotels, and theaters, and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.

Humphrey looking on as President Johnson speaks to Gorry

AP Photo/Charles the country before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Martin Luther King, Jr. at Humphreys
Washington, DC, office; a letter from King to Humphrey dated June 24, 1964

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 Into The Bright Sunshine

Food For Peace In 1954, Humphrey joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and began to travel
the world. That led to his first global legislationa plan to share Americas growing
food surplus and build friendships with decolonizing countries. His efforts led to the
passage of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, which in
1961, at his suggestion, was expanded and renamed Food for Peace.

Humphrey at a CAREs booth in 1949. CARE is a nongovernmental organization originally established to provide
emergency food supplies to the starving people in Europe after the end of World War II. Humphrey first described
his idea of a global Food for Peace program at a CARE board meeting in 1957.

Now the centerpiece of Americas international food aid program, Food for Peace has
served more than three billion people in over 150 countries. Todays Food for Peace pro-
vides food assistance in several ways: using food grown in the U.S., food grown closer to
where it is needed, and using vouchers that can be used in local markets.

Food for Peace also works to address underlying causes of hunger and poverty. Long-
term programs aim to reduce chronic malnutrition, increase and diversify family in-
come, and diversify agricultural production to build communities resilience to shocks.

Food distribution in Northern Uganda (Image courtesy of USAID)

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Food and Fiber as a Force for Freedom (excerpts from 1958 Congressional Report)

Food is the common denominator of international life.

Bread, not guns, may well decide mankinds future destiny.

Our reserves of food and fiber, and our ability to pro-

duce such commodities in abundance, are resources to be
prizedto be used boldly and imaginatively and not to
be dribbled away. We need to reappraise our own food re-
sources, not in the light of our immediate domestic needs
but in light of world needs.

Food production in the world is barely keeping pace with

the growth in population. Hunger is still the daily compan-
ion to millions of people. Where there are hunger areas,
there are tension areasand where there are tension ar-
eas, there is danger of sparks igniting into war.

Our policies must look ahead at least as far as the lifetimes

of todays children; as a nation we cannot do less than
plan for survival. We must strive for nothing less than
world peace. In either case, our food resources are essential.

Beneficiaries in Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan; Madagascar; and Tajikistan (images courtesy of USAID)

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 Into The Bright Sunshine

Nuclear Test Ban & Disarmament

1946 nuclear testing by the U.S. at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, which remains uninhabitable to this day

After the end of World War II, the U.S. and the Soviet Union began stockpiling and testing
nuclear weapons. Humphrey quickly emerged as a leading voice against such activity, call-
ing for an end to all nuclear testing and the global disarmament of not only nuclear weap-
ons but all weapons of mass destruction. The following are excerpts from God, Man,
and the Hydrogen Bomb, a speech he gave at the Washington Cathedral in 1950:

Not only is the threat of physical disaster a grave one for the future of mankind, but the chron-
ic threat of war, even without its advent, must inevitably create a state of perpetual crisis and
resultant loss of human freedom.

The fear and mistrust today is too obvious to need documentation. It is that which produces
atomic and hydrogen bombs. Yet, in spite possessing a stockpile of bombs and spending more
than fifteen billion a year on military preparedness, many Americans are still insecure.

Let us not ignore the deep-rooted contradictions between democracy and totalitarianism of any
form, whether it be communist or fascist. Let us never cease expressing our indignation toward
slavery nor our vigilance on behalf of freedom. So long as there is oppression, or injustice, or
totalitarian power in the world, there is conflict. We must, however, lift conflict out of the
realm of war.

Our responsibility is to tell the peoples of the world that we, temporarily the mightiest of
nations, are ready to join in an international effort to abolish war. We must resolve to take
some of the imaginative daring, which we have shown in the physical sciences, to start a chain
reaction among the peoples and governments of the world against this madness and insanity.

Our proposals for disarmament should include the absolute prohibition of the manufacture
of weapons for mass destruction, limited not only to atomic and hydrogen bombs but also to
conventional armaments as well. We should stand ready to turn over our own stockpiles of
destruction to the United Nations as part of such an international agreement and in concert
with all other nations of the world.

At this moment in history, the helpless and teeming millions of people, citizens of the world,
anxiously look for a declaration of American foreign policy that will provide them with the
hope that war is not inevitable and that peace can indeed be a reality for them and their chil-
dren. Having offered our willingness to join as partners in the struggle for peaceand against
the real enemies of mankind, hunger, and povertywe would gain ourselves the friendship and
loyalty of all the peoples of the world. Here is a moral alternative to world chaos.

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 Humphrey spent over a decade building support for a ban on
nuclear testing and all weapons of mass destruction.

In 1958, he engaged Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a historic,

eight-hour conversation at the Kremlin that helped ease ten-
sions between the two countries. With only Kruschevs transla-
tor present for most of the meeting, the two men chatted and
dined until 11:00 pm. Humphrey afterward noted, Im the only
American to have gone to the bathroom three times in one day
in the Kremlin.

In 1959, Humphrey introduced a resolution to negotiate a test

ban, which was unanimously adopted by the Senate. He also
ran television ads denouncing the use of the earths atmo-
sphere as a rubbish dump for radioactive debris. He further
persuaded the kennedy administration to establish the Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, the first U.S. government
entity to focus on disarmament.

Those efforts led to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the worlds first major step toward unilater-
al disarmament. At the signing ceremony Kennedy said, Hubert, this is your treaty, and it had better work.

It did. With the signing of that treaty, all testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater, and in the
earths atmosphereand the associated dangers of widespread nuclear falloutcame to an end. The treaty
also energized the global anti-nuclear movement and ushered in a new period of dtente and agreements
between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. It marked the end of one of the most terrifying periods of human history.

To date, the treaty has been signed and ratified by over 125 countries.

Participation in Partial Test Ban Treaty

signed & ratified only signed

acceding or succeeding non-signatory

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 Into The Bright Sunshine

The Peace Corps In the late 1950s, Humphrey proposed the establishment of a Peace Corpsa vol-
unteer program through which young adults could participate in overseas operations
supporting education, health care, vocational training, and community development.
In the 1970s, he reflected, it did not meet with much enthusiasm. Some traditional
diplomats quaked at the thought of thousands of young Americans scattered across the
world. Many senators, including liberal ones, thought it a silly and an unworkable idea.

In the spring and summer of 1960, Humphrey ran against John F. Kennedy for the Dem-
ocratic presidential nomination. After losing the West Virginia primary, he withdrew
and returned to his work in the U.S. Senate. On June 15th, he introduced a bill to create
a Peace Corps of Young Americans. After Kennedy won the nomination, Humphrey
transferred all of his Peace Corps files to Kennedys office and urged the nominee to
support the bill. Six days before the election Kennedy announced his support for estab-
lishing the Peace Corps, and less than two months into his presidency, he signed the
executive order bringing the Peace Corps to life.

The Peace Corps Bill submitted by Senator Humphrey in 1961

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Less than two weeks later, Humphrey joined Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt in a televised discussion entitled
The Peace Corps: What Shape Shall It Take? Here are excerpts from Humphreys remarks:

One of the aims of the Peace Corps is to permit this great surge of goodwill that is so ever-present in the American com-
munityand I am sure it is in other communitiesto manifest itself in some practical work and meaningful purpose.

I think this will have a very healthy impact upon our political understanding of the world in which we live. We Ameri-
cans are prone to read a pamphlet, or a headline, or an editorial about so-called emerging nations or underdeveloped
nationsand this streak of compassion in you says, Do something about it, or somebody else says, Thats not my
business. So we treat it superficially. But when you have a substantial number of young people that are really living with
their neighbors in other parts of the worldnot living above them, not living removed from thembut part of a family, so
to speakand right down at the basic, fundamental parts of community life, you are going to have an understanding of
the world in which we live. I cannot help but think that this is one of the more important contributions that we are going
to get out of it.

This is not a part of the Cold War at allthis is a part of the warm heart and the open mind.

To date, the Peace Corps has supported more than 255,000 Americans to serve in 141 countries.

Humphrey playing baseball with Vene- Humphrey with Palestinian youth at a Humphrey with Chinese Americans at
zuelan youth (date unknown) refugee camp near Beirut in 1957 the Minneapolis Aquatennial in 1970

Photographs courtesy of The Peace Corps

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 Into The Bright Sunshine

The Moral Test of Government

In 1977, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters was re-
named the Hubert H. Humphrey Building. It was the first time a federal building had
been named for a living person. At the dedication, Humphrey made this statement:

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of lifethe children;
those who are in the twilight of lifethe aged; and those in the shadows of lifethe sick, the
needy, and the handicapped.

Here are some of the landmark programs that Humphrey pioneered in that spirit:

The Elementary & Secondary Education
Act is the most far-reaching legislation af-
fecting education ever passed by Congress.
It funds primary and secondary education
while forbidding the establishment of a na-
tional curriculum. It also emphasizes equal
access, high standards, and accountability.
Head Start provides education, health,
nutrition, social and other services to
young children in low-income fami-
lies through local agencies. Since 1965,
Head Start has served over thirty mil-
lion children. Today, it operates through
about 1,700 agencies nationwide.

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Medicare is a national health insurance program that
serves forty million people aged sixty-five and older
and eight million younger people with disabilities.

The first bill Humphrey sponsored as a newly elected

senator in 1949, Post-Hospital Care for the Aged,
was also the countrys first health care bill for se-
nior citizens. It received little support. Undaunted,
Humphrey continued to push for sixteen years until,
during his vice presidency in 1965, President Lyndon
B. Johnson signed Medicare into law.

Humphreys original Civil Rights Act of 1964 bill prohibited

discrimination based on disability, but those sections ultimately
were removed to accumulate the votes needed for the bill to pass.
Humphrey remained resolute on the issue, though, and eight
years later proposed amending the Act. The political climate was
still unfavorable, but Humphrey managed to pass a separate bill,
the Rehabilitation Act of 1972. When the bill reached President
Nixons desk, however, Nixon pocket vetoed it by taking no
action and letting it die while Congress was not in session.

Humphrey did not live to see the result of his efforts, but in keep-
ing disability rights in the national spotlight, he fueled a move-
ment that led to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, a
wide-ranging law that provides protections similar to those of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Facing page: Vice President Walter Mondale at the dedication of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, DC, as Hubert and Muriel
Humphrey look on; Humphrey reading comics on the radio in Minnesota in 1946; Humphrey holding two -year-old Turetta Cox in Cleveland,
Ohio in 1968. This page: President Lyndon Johnson signing the Medicare Bill, as former President Harry Truman (seated), Lady Bird Johnson
(standing behind the President), Hubert Humphrey, and Bess Truman look on; the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) logo; demonstrators
at a New Jersey public transit protesting in the 1980s (photograph by Tom Olin); The Capitol Crawl when, on March 14, 1990, activists
abandoned their wheelchairs and mobility devices and crawled up the steps of the Capitol Building to demand passage of the ADA (photograph
by Tom Olin); an ADA-compliant, low-floor trolley car and color-contrast, tactile warning strips at Bostons Park Street T-stop

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 Into The Bright Sunshine

The Healing Power of Love Kin & Communities

(excerpts from a 1977 speech at the Smithsonian Institute)

I remember one experience in 1960, on election night. We were celebrating my re-election to

the United States Senate and also the birth of our first grandchild. She was named Victoria, to
celebrate in the childs name our political victory; her birth was on the very night of my re-elec-
tion. The next day we learned from the doctors that Vicki was retardeda victim of Downs
Syndrome. Wed never had anything like this in our family; we traced it backthere was no such
thing. But there it was.

Why us? Why were we to be the ones? We asked a thousand times. My daughter Nancy, her
husband, my wife Muriel and Iwe literally wept all evening over the news and shock over Vic-
kis condition. We were fighting with our lack of knowledge, unsure what the future held in store
for little Victoria, being told to put her off in an institution; I hate that word, institution. We
want to institutionalize everything. Its dehumanizing. I love the word community.

The decision was made to rear Vicki at home, not on the basis of medical advice but of ethical
understandingmoral commitment. I believe in the healing power of love. And Im no preacher;
Im a sinner and know it. But I believe in it, and I believe in the healing power of positive think-
ingof not giving in, of knowing you can do better.

But I cannot tell you what a source of joy and love this little girl has been to ushow her handi-
cap would lead us into a whole new dimension of life, and more particularly, how it would lead
Muriel into some of the most satisfying and productive work that shes ever experienced. And
how weve been able to work with other families and share with them their grief, and then raise
their hopes, and to work with teachers and medical specialists for whom retardation is special
concern. Just this past week we dedicated community residences where young, retarded adults
will live in a normal community lifegetting them out of the warehouses, putting them into
homes where there are foster parents, and where they can go to the shopping centers, go to the
schools, have special training programs. Beautiful homes, they are. I remember the community
didnt want them at first. I said to one member of the community, is it because the homes are
going to be too beautiful? Now, everybodys happy about it. Sunday, this past week, we dedicated
a $2 million opportunity workshop for the retardedgetting these people out of the shadows, out
into the bright sunshine, letting them be part of the community.

Love. Compassion. There isnt quite enough of it talked about or acted upon.

Its unfortunate that so many of us, when we talk about morality, were talking about sexual
behavior or misbehavior: promiscuity, adultery, and the like. This is a very serious misunder-
standing and surely a very narrow perception because morality concerns every kind of human
behavior. When Im speaking of morality, Im talking about behavior towards ourselves, our
fellow human beings, other living creatures, and even the earth itself. Environmental protection
is morality. Conservation of our resources is morality; abuse and waste of our resources is immo-
rality. And the abuse and waste of ourselves is the worst kind of immorality.

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Now, everyone knows that Man is a social animal; its a clich, literally. But I imagine that too few of us have ever really
stopped to think what that means. As I see it, what it comes down to is this: If we deny the existence of any ethical stan-
dards, if we deny responsibility for ourselves or the people we love, and for our fellow human beings, we cannot survive
as individuals or as a society. In other words, you cannot survive as a society, and even as an individual by self-centered
concentration. If we do not live by some standards of truth and justice, of kindness and respect for the integrity and rights
of others, we will perish; we will lose our humanity.

So when we speak of civil rights and civil liberties of others, were really protecting ourselves, because the only protection
that one has in the Ultimate is the family and the communitythe larger community in which we live.

Humphrey with his granddaughter Victoria

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 Into The Bright Sunshine

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BOOKS AND JOURNALS (CONTINUED)

Solberg, Carl. Hubert Humphrey: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1984.

Swanson, Ryan. Fighting World Hunger: U.S. Food Aid Policy and the Food for Peace Program. AgExporter (Octo-
ber 2004): 4-8. http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/FAS_10-2004.pdf.

Thurber, Timothy N. The Politics of Equality: Hubert Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Weiner, Sarah, ed. Nuclear Scholars Initiative: A Collection of Papers from the 2013 Nuclear Scholars Initiative.
Center for Strategic & International Studies ( January 2014): 1-272. http://csis.org/files/publication/140109_Wein-
er_NuclearScholarsInitiative2013_WEB.pdf.

Wilson, Paula. The Civil Rights Rhetoric of Hubert H. Humphrey: 1948-1964. Lanham: University Press of America,
Inc., 1996.

VIDEO AND FILM

Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible, written and produced by Mick Caouette. South Hill Films, 2010. DVD,
120 min.

Humphrey, Hubert H. Civil Rights. Television advertisement. Citizens for HumphreyMuskie, directed by Charles
Guggenheim, 1968.

Humphrey, Hubert H. Interview with Longines Wittnauer Watch Company, Inc. Longines Chronoscope with Hubert
H. Humphrey. CBS Television Network Production, produced and directed by Alan R. Cartoun, March 14, 1952.
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.96003.

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Hubert H. Humphrey at Boston University in 1956

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Humphrey Fellows of 19791980 (above) and 19801981 (below) at their respective Global Leadership Forums in Washington, DC

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President George H. W. Bush greeting Humphrey Fellows in Washington, DC

First Lady Rosalynn Carter greeting Humphrey Fellows in Washington, DC

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Former President Jimmy Carter with Fellows in 2012

Senator Hubert Humphrey with his niece Anne Howard

Hubert Humphrey's sister Frances Humphrey-Howard addressing Anne L. Howard-Tristani addressing Humphrey Fellows at
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