As long as any American is denied the chance to fully develop and to use his talents, to become all that he can be, then every American is less than he should be.
Topic · on the record
Opportunity
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To help open the doors of opportunity to every American woman, I am today announcing the establishment of a new group on careers for Women.
Every boy and girl born in this country under that flag has a right to all the education that he or she can take.
Education should be open to every boy and girl born in America up to the highest level they can take.
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.
My fervent hope is that the United States of America, in meeting the needs of this decade, will also be peopled by 'men able to use their opportunities.'
This is a great responsibility, a great opportunity, and you are the leaders of it.
There must be equality of opportunity for all modes and for all passengers and shippers, without any special preferences.
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.
A child's opportunity and development are shaped first and most by the strength or weakness of his home and family situation.
But if you hold my view that the United States as the great defender of freedom in the 1960's has to move ahead, has to provide opportunity for its people, has to develop in this country a strong and vigorous society which it cannot…
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.
Either they don't have the money or they have to go to work, or they haven't an opportunity.
The next 10 years, in short, will be a decade of opportunity.
Opportunities must be accompanied by important responsibilities.
I believe in the equality of opportunity for every citizen of the United States
We want to live a life that gives to each of us the utmost opportunity for spiritual, intellectual and material and economic development, for ourselves and for our children.
Indeed, this word 'opportunity' seems to me to contain much that means happiness for the human--opportunity to expand and to be useful, to know that he is contributing his share to the advancement of that great society of which he is a…