Goals of Postwar Federal Initiatives

But we have never lost sight of our goal: an America in which every citizen shares all the opportunities of his society, in which every man has a chance to advance his welfare to the limit of his capacities.HTMLBREAKWe have come a long way toward this goal. We still have a long way to go.The distance which remains is the measure of the great unfinished work of our society.HTMLBREAKTo finish that work I have called for a national war on poverty. Our objective: total victory.HTMLBREAKThere are millions of Americans--one fifth of our people--who have not shared in the abundance which has been granted to most of us, and on whom the gates of opportunity have been closed.