○  英语演讲：the great society  ○

th to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our american civilization.

your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. for in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the great society.

the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. but that is just the beginning.

the great society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. it is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. it is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. it is a place where man can renew contact with nature. it is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what is adds to the understanding of the race. it is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

but most of all, the great society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. it is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

so i want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the great society -- in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million americans -- four-fifths of them in urban areas. in the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we wil

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