"Your imagination, 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."
- Presidential remarks at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964
What was the MAIN reason some politically Liberal groups during the 1960s criticized the application of Great Society programs?
A) The Great Society ideals seemed inconsistent with the escalating war in
Vietnam
B) They feared the government would become too powerful under the Great
Society plan
c) The Great Society ideals would require large financial investments on
many levels.
D)They believed moral and cultural traditions would decline under the Great
Society plan.