Labor and Political Action

"It is not enough for labor to use the Taft-Hartley vote and other domestic issues as criteria for measuring candidates. Labor cannot safely ignore the relationship of foreign and domestic policy. The men and women and children who are dying in Indonesia or Palestine or Greece are workers and farmers, too. Labor here at home must act or we shall feel the terror common men and women have already felt in so much of the world.

Civil Rights in the United States

"Unless they are stopped, the present methods of fighting communism and socialism by whipping up hysteria and invoking systems of thought control will give us a police state here. We cannot preserve and improve our system of democratic capitalism by undermining our high standard for human rights and civil liberties.

The United Nations

"Ignored, circumvented, obstructed, the United Nations still remains our great hope for enduring peace. Those of us who know that One World is not only possible, but necessary, must direct our efforts to strengthening the UN....

... Only through a strong UN can we have peace. Only by being fully and constructively used can the UN gain strength.... In the long run it is the United States which will suffer a permanent loss of prestige unless we show our willingness to build One World through use of the machinery of the UN."