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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Knowledge, not hate, is the passkey to the future--knowledge transcends national antagonisms--it speaks a universal…”

On the recordMarch 31, 1962
Knowledge, not hate, is the passkey to the future--knowledge transcends national antagonisms--it speaks a universal language--it is the possession, not of a single class, a single nation or a single ideology, but of all mankind.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Message to the UNESCO Meeting of Asian Ministers of Education in Tokyo.

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