Men like these—men by the millions—have deepened and defined our very understanding of what is true and just in the wide world from which they came. e know—as our forefathers knew—the firm ground on which our beliefs must stand. Freedom is rooted in the certainty that the brotherhood of all men springs from the Fatherhood of God. And thus, even as each man is his brother's keeper, no man is another's master.

Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)