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Jimmy Carter: Our Founding Fathers spoke about the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but without freedom from…

On the recordJuly 10, 1977
Our Founding Fathers spoke about the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but without freedom from oppression and from disease, the pursuit of happiness has little meaning.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Presidential Medal of Freedom Remarks on Presenting the Medal to Dr. Jonas E. Salk and to Martin Luther King, Jr.

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