Speech #880267289

These youngsters who know no privacy. who have no sense of person. who have no sense of belonging except to their kind and no sense of responsibility except to a sustaining of life. these are the children of poverty. Contrast this with the poor. A struggling college boy can be poor but he is not so impoverished. A draftee may be poor but he is not so impoverished. A pensioner at the twilight of a productive life may be poor but he is not so impoverished. An immigrant coming from another land may arrive here poor. but he is not so impoverished. The poverty we are here addressing ourselves to is the impoverishment of opportunity. The denial from the beginning of life to compete for improvement.