I want this administration to be recognized as one in which we finally achieve full and equal opportunity for persons of every race, color, creed, and nationality.

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 possibly do under the administration of a candidate who reassures and comforts the people in a time of hazard and a time of peril, I believe this country has a great destiny in the sixties.

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.

The next 10 years, in short, will be a decade of opportunity.

Either they don't have the money or they have to go to work, or they haven't an 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.

I could think of no greater service that this Committee over the years has contributed to the United States than to bring to each--not only the handicapped people themselves, but to all of us--the fact that opportunity does truly belong to all.