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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “To achieve this goal political freedom must accompany material progress. Our Alliance for Progress is an alliance of…”

On the recordMarch 12, 1961
To achieve this goal political freedom must accompany material progress. Our Alliance for Progress is an alliance of free governments-and it must work to eliminate tyranny from a hemisphere in which it has no rightful place.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy emphasizes the need for political freedom alongside economic progress in the Alliance for Progress.

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