Equality

We must care about the rights of our fellow man as much as we care about the rights of our own.

What men are in America is not determined by their pedigree or their purse but by their soul and spirit and by their God-given worth.

Our will and our work today is that the meaning of our country and our Constitution, and our destiny, shall be the same for all Americans, regardless of their creed or their color or their origins.

The majority says 'yes' to equal rights for all, equal hopes for all, equal happiness for all.

Our hopes for the handicapped can be realized if the employers of this Nation will but consider all job applicants, regardless of handicaps, solely on the basis of their qualifications to do the job.

I believe that we have a commitment to assure every American an opportunity to live in a decent home, in a safe and a decent neighborhood.

I am transmitting herewith, for the consideration of the Congress, draft legislation carrying out these principles, providing equality of opportunity among carriers, removing artificial barriers to the realization of the inherent…

There must be equality of opportunity for all modes and for all passengers and shippers, without any special preferences.

I, therefore, renew my request that, in the interest of equality, one of these solutions be adopted.

The right to vote in a free American election is the most powerful and precious right in the world—and it must not be denied on the grounds of race or color.

It is not merely because of the Cold War, and not merely because of the economic waste of discrimination, that we are committed to achieving true equality of opportunity. The basic reason is because it is right.

This report tells a great American story-it is the record of the deeds by which Negroes and their fellow Americans have given life and meaning to the words of Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers before him.

In freeing themselves, the Negroes have enlarged the freedoms of all Americans.

It must be our purpose to continue steady progress until the promise of equal rights for all has been fulfilled.

And that is why we intend to work until a college education is available to every young man and woman with the talent to pursue it.

We owe it to each individual child to give him the best education he is capable of absorbing.

Every child here in this community deserves to be well educated.

I think a nation that holds itself out as the champion of democracy has an obligation to do better by all Americans.