Commencement Address at Yale University.
06/10/1962
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The United States Government has taken action through the courts and by other means to protect those who are peacefully demonstrating to obt...
I strongly urge them to live up to their responsibilities and to recognize no arbitrary bar of race or color-for such bars have no place in ...
we should rid ourselves of racial discrimination.
Such legislation is clearly consistent with the Constitution and with our concepts of both human rights and property rights.