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On the recordNovember 14, 1962
So it seems to me very natural that those who took into their ranks and, indeed, built their ranks upon the immigrants, upon women who were exploited, upon men who worked too long, upon young people who were put to work under adverse conditions, old people who were dismissed when they were too old to sustain the burdens of long employment, that the labor movement would be, as it has been for the last 30 years, the natural center and core of the effort to provide better opportunity for all of our fellow citizens.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Signing of a Joint Statement on Fair Employment Practices.

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