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On the recordJune 25, 1963
So let me ask you, as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin

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