John Kennedy actually said...

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.

Context

Remarks Upon Receiving Civil Rights Commission Report Freedom to the Free

02/11/1963

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