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On the recordJune 23, 1963
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Bonn at the Signing of a Charter Establishing the German Peace Corps.

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