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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “No one--in the darkest cell, the remotest prison, under the most unyielding tyranny--is ever entirely lost in bondage…”

On the recordMarch 16, 1962
No one--in the darkest cell, the remotest prison, under the most unyielding tyranny--is ever entirely lost in bondage while there are yet free men in the world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Statement of the President on St. Patrick's Day

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