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.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.