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@JohnFKennedy

President Kennedy’s words in today’s world. A project of the Foundation for the campaign, inspiring a new generation with his message.

Columbia Point, Boston
Joined November 2009

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  1. For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.

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  2. Jan 2

    For courage - not complacency - is our need today - leadership - not salesmanship.

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  3. We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

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  4. Our problems are man-made - therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable - and we believe they can do it again.

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  5. The pioneers of old gave up their safety, their comfort and sometimes their lives to build a new world here in the West. They were not... prisoners of their own price tags. Their motto was not "every man for himself" - but "all for the common cause."

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  6. Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so. There will be further setbacks before the tide is turned. But turn it we must.

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  7. In short, every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. But this is not the case.

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  8. For uncounted millions, Christmas expresses the deepest hopes for a world of peace where love rather than mistrust will flourish between neighbors.

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  9. There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength… Too many Americans have lost their way, their will and their sense of historic purpose.

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  10. This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents.

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  11. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

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  12. For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

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  13. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

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  14. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war - and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.

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  15. It's very important to all of us to pass on - and perhaps even better - the position of all the natural resources that we have.

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  16. It is time to act in the Congress, in your State and local legislative body and, above all, in all of our daily lives.

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  17. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people. It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk...

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  18. But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

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  19. And so it is to the printing press — to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news — that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

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  20. Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

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