Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires the man to live with dignity in the society.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.