There's nothing more devastating to a young person who arrives at the age of 18 or 19, finishing high school, to know that he has enormous promise within himself or within herself and to be deprived of a right to serve usefully.
Atlantic City, New Jersey Remarks at a Democratic Party Campaign Luncheon
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