Economic Opportunity Act of 1964: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the War on Poverty Program of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representataives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 10440, a Bill to Mobilize the Human and Financial Resources of the Nation to Combat Poverty in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 1241 pages |
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Page 221 - ... any facility used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship...
Page 153 - For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, services for promoting the health of mothers and children, especially in rural areas and in areas suffering from severe economic distress...
Page 332 - Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Page 575 - It is good to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.
Page 646 - The United States can achieve its full economic and social potential as a nation only if every individual has the opportunity to contribute to the full extent of his capabilities and to participate in the workings of our society.
Page 453 - The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Page 15 - Except as otherwise provided in this section, a volunteer shall not be deemed a Federal employee and shall not be subject to the provisions of law relating to Federal employment, including those relating to hours of work, rates of compensation, leave, unemployment compensation, and Federal employee benefits.
Page 11 - ... the loan bears interest at a rate not less than (1) a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the average market yield on outstanding Treasury obligations of comparable maturity, plus (2) such additional charge, if any, toward covering other costs of the program as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration may determine to be consistent with its purposes...
Page 15 - Indians living on reservations, of migratory workers and their families, or of residents of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands...
Page 468 - Our objective: total victory. There 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.