“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.”
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
