It is our responsibility to bring those programs, extension of the right to vote, civil rights, minimum wage, housing, education, to increase the opportunity for all Americans to share in the abundance.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is our responsibility to bring those programs, extension of the right to vote, civil rights, minimum wage, housing…”
On the recordOctober 18, 1960
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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Auditorium, Union Hall, New York, NY
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