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Jimmy Carter: If the truth is to set us free, we must study and to understand our own past and how it affects the present and the…

On the recordOctober 9, 1980
If the truth is to set us free, we must study and to understand our own past and how it affects the present and the future.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Remarks on Signing Into Law Bills Establishing the Martin Luther King, Junior, and Boston African American National Historic...

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