Youth

Continued, unacceptably high levels of unemployment for young and disadvantaged Americans, especially black and Hispanic young people, require vigorous national action.

Not a single young American is fighting or dying on foreign soil today, and we are proud of it.

Not a single young American is fighting or dying on any foreign battlefield tonight, and they won't.

We must redouble our efforts to help these young men and women find jobs.

The habits they are learning today will make them better citizens tomorrow.

I want all of you to know what a great inspiration it is for me to be here, to see you, to hear you, to see the young people that represent all of America.

Your generation has the opportunity to participate more fully in the American adventure than young people have ever been able to do since Revolutionary times 200 years ago.

Young people today, every survey shows, are more generously committed to human betterment through voluntary service than any generation before you.

I believe one of America's most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America.

For the young Indian of today will eventually become the bridge between two cultures, two languages, and two ways of life.

We must smooth the transition from school to work.

This is a very good time, I think, to be a young man.

I pay tribute to the bankers of America who have given their Government a lending hand and have extended it also to those coming young men and women who need an education and who, when they get it, will reward us all with their increased…

I think that as a result of this meeting and the work that they have already done, the legislation we have already passed, that not only will many thousands of young people be attending college who otherwise would not have been able to…

A man's character is molded in his youth.

These young men and women will go to the barrios of Santo Domingo and Santiago to work with and to work for the people of the Dominican Republic in attaining a new life and a new hope.

Every boy and girl born in this country under that flag has a right to all the education that he or she can take.

The effects of unemployment are nowhere more depressing and disheartening than among the young.