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REMARKS 0 REPR TENTATIVE BARBARA ORDAN 0TEXAS HONOR STUDENTS, FEBRUARY , 1975 ECONOMIC RECOVERY FOR AMERICA THERE IS HOPE FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY. EACH OF YOU HERE TODAY ARE LIVING EVIDENCE OF PERSONAL, HARD FOUGHT DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED. MANY OF THE YOOTH OF TODAY ARE DISMISSED, IGNORED AND CATEGORIZED AS SOMETHING JUST SHORT OF A PUBLIC NUISANCE. BUT FOR TOO LONG HAVE ADULTS, HAS THIS NATION, IGNORED THE POTENTIAL AND THE VIABLE STRENGTH AND INTELLEGENCE OF YOUTH. BUT YOUR GOVERNMENT IS LEARNING. YOUR GOVERNMENT IS BECOMING RESPONSIBE ONCE AGAIN TO PEOPLE AND YOU ARE THE NEWEST ENFRANCHISED SEGMENT OF A NATIONAL CONSTITUENCY. WHEN LEGISLATORS AND OLDER GENERATIONS CAN NO LONGER PREDICT OR GUARANTEE A POSITIVE FUTURE FOR OUR NATION, THE TASK FALLS TO YOU TO MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN, TO RESURRECT AND NOW REHABILITATE OUR NATION. ALL AROUND IS A DETERIORATING ECONOMY WITH FEWER JOBS AND FEWER OPPORTUNITIES. OUR JOB TO BEGIN REHABILITATION MEANS A COMMITTMENT BY US TO CURING OUR SOCIETY AND PROVIDING THE DWINDLING OPPORTUNITIES YOU AS INDIVIDUALS HAVE EARNED AND SHOULD HAVE. 1963, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SPEAKING TO AMERICAN AND THE WORLD, DESCRIBED IN UNFORGETTABLE LANGUAGE HIS AND OUR VISION OF THIS NATION AS ONE SOCIETY, THE "BELOVED COMMUNITY" OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. OURS IS THE TASK - AND THE PRIVILEGE - OF FURTHERING THAT VISION, OF SHAPING AMERICAN LIFE IN ACCORD WITH THE IDEALS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND OUR
Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan to Texas Honor Students, addressing the potential of youth to improve society. Handwritten notes are written in the margins.
