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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It’s the system that functions in the pinches that survives.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

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