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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: So I come to Harlem today to ask you to join us, to register this week, to vote, to stand for progress, to move, to go…

On the recordOctober 11, 1960
So I come to Harlem today to ask you to join us, to register this week, to vote, to stand for progress, to move, to go forward, until the United States achieves this great goal of practicing what it preaches.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Excerpts of Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Public Rally, Hotel Theresa, New York, NY

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