"Few persons have a lasting effect on the times in which they live. Philip Sharper is one who has influenced his times through the many memorable books he has published."

"During recent years, I have been severely criticized for being forthrightly and enthusiastically in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment."

"As we read the newspapers and watch the nightly news broadcasts, we are appalled by what is taking place in South Africa."

Dated February 1986. Not clear if this is a speech.

"If prophesy one must, and it is a chancy business at best given the paucity of authentic prophets, the millennial year just ahead of us will probably find everyone prophesying."

"One can say, without much fear of contradiction, that the last thirty years have seen more dramatic and positive change in the matter of racial eqaulity than all of the 178 preceding years since the Declaration of Independence declared that 'All men are created equal.'"

Enclosed is the final draft of speech with editor's notes and comments, including endnotes and references. Might be a speech Father Hesburgh delivered at the Symposium on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from 1986. Might be both a speech and an article. With the draft a reprint of the speech from The George Washington Law Review, Vol. 54, Numbers 2 and 3, January and March 1986, pp. 244-252.

"For the fruits of his creation, thanks be to God."

"Greeting Governor Otis Bowen on behalf of the educational institutions of Indiana is like introducing Papa Halas to the Chicago Bears."

"It was only yesterday that human rights were the stepchildren of foreign policy."

Could be a proposal written by Theodore M. Hesburgh and Tom J. Farer, might not be a speech.

" ... I hope you take what I say in that context. I'm not trying to make any political points."

Transcribed conference talk with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations. Also on tape 13. Meeting took place in 1985 probably in Vienna.

"I would like to consider the possibility of our academic institutions to shape the future and I would presume to speak particularly of the moral dimensions of higher education and some of the impending ethical questions that attend such considerations."

"With some fanfare last month, the Immigration and Naturalization Service announced that it had apprehended 131,500 aliens trying to cross our borders in January."

Speech possibly dated 1986

"It is commonplace today to say that U.S. - Soviet relations have never been at a lower ebb."

Speech was probably given in 1985.

"More than four decades in higher education as a teacher and an administrator has taught me to take a long view."

Speech possibly given in 1987.

"One of the greatest intellectual and moral needs of mankind is to find a workable rationale for continuity in times of change."

Not clear if this is a speech.

"When I grew up, the Church had all the answers to every conceivable question and the answers were always black and white."

Excerpt from 24 April 1974 talk to the National Conference of the Catholic Press. For the complete talk see (CPHS 142/07.03) or (UDIS H2/07.05).

Same as (UDIS H2/07.06)

"One would think this would be an easy assignment - to discuss concerns for human life from the perspective of social justice."

"I would like to address myself this evening to the issue of quality education for the needs of the nation."

Later draft of "The Social Responsibility of Graduate Education and Research" in (CPHS 142/21.04) conference talk. With Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.

3rd page missing

"Santayana once remarked that those who neglect history and its lessons are condemned to repeat all the mistakes of the past."

This speech was possibly delivered in 1985, but month and day unknown.

Same as (UDIS H2/18.02).

"This question is the leitmotiv of all that follows. What I am trying to do is the opposite of history and something short of prophecy."

Lecture notes on 183 handwritten pages in 4 booklets, numbered 1-5.

"What will the world be like in the year 2000? This question is the leitmotiv of all that follows."

Final draft of Terry Lecture Series, Chapters I-X, pp. 1-100.

"What will the world be like in the year 2000?"

Earlier draft of the Lecture Notes Series filed in (CPHS 143/05.01). New title.

With Father Hesburgh handwritten annotations.

"What will the world be like in the year 2000?"

Early draft, pp. 1-85, Chapters I-IX, pp. 1-85.

"Prelude: What will the world be like in the year 2000?"

Preface written by Kingman Brewster: "This lectureship is a pulpit as well as a learned podium; this lecturer is above all a priest."

Page proof copy of Father Hesburgh's printed book with few corrections. Comprises speeches he gave as part of the Terry lectures at Yale University in 1974. Encloses preface for the book by Kingman Brewster, Jr., New Haven, April 1974. Published by Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 1-115.

"I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you various proposals to strenghten the United Nations in the human rights field and to increase the priority given to human rights considerations in the United States foreign policy decision-making."

Same as (UDIS H2/06.02)

"I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you the experience of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during its more than 13 years."

"Once more, I am back with 'Thoughts for Our Time' ... The first talk, 'The Mission of the Catholic University in the Modern World', was delivered on September 10 of this year at Lovanium University in Kinshasa, Congo.

Some additional speeches used for Yale - Terry Lectures book. 4 addresses delivered by Father Hesburgh during 1968 grouped together in a booklet: 1st "The Mission of the Catholic University in the Modern World," 2nd "In Defense of the Younger Generation," 3rd "The Churches and the Struggle against Prejudice," and 4th "On Human Rights."

"America's national psyche is troubled today, although we hide it in multiple ways."

Not a speech. Article, published by Sunday New York Times Magazine, and used as additional material for Father Hesburgh's Terry Lecture book. This article is based on a speech he made at Union Theological Seminary upon receiving the Reinhold Niebuhr Award. Same as (CPHS 142/05.02). Also same as "America's Unfinished Human Agenda" in (UDIS H2/05.04).

"It is a strange paradox that the most striking photograph brought back from the moon by the astronauts was not a close-up picture of the moon itself, but a faraway picture of the earth."

2 printed copies of speech in 2 brochures. Additional correspondence and printed programs of the event filed in (CPHS 142/06.04).

"The rapid expansion of global economic activity against the backdrop of increasing environmental pressure is compelling mankind to address the issue of social justice on a world scale and in a new context."