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On the recordFebruary 11, 1963
This report tells a great American story-it is the record of the deeds by which Negroes and their fellow Americans have given life and meaning to the words of Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers before him.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks Upon Receiving Civil Rights Commission Report Freedom to the Free

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