There should be no 'artificial and arbitrary barriers to employment based on age, race, sex, religion, or national origin.'
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Letter to Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, Chairman of the National Woman's Party
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The Family of Man can survive differences of race and religion. Contrary to the assertions of Mr. Khrushchev, it can accept differences of ideology, politics, and economics.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
It gives them a greater security, a greater participation in the wellbeing of this country.
In order to assure effective and continuing leadership in advancing the status of women, it is deemed appropriate to establish an interdepartmental committee and a citizens' advisory council on the status of women.





