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Nevertheless it is hard for any nation to focus on an external or subversive threat to its independence when its energies are drained in daily combat with the forces of poverty and despair.
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John F. Kennedy
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Editor's note · Context
Kennedy acknowledges the challenges nations face in addressing external threats while dealing with internal poverty.
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For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man.
Tomorrow it can form the framework for a world of law--a world in which no nation dictates the destiny of another, and in which the vast resources now devoted to destructive means will serve constructive ends.
But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.