09/27/1960
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"And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citizens."
"Only the President of the United States speaks for California and Illinois and Massachusetts, and he speaks for more than the United States."
"That is the issue which you have to decide."
"But if you share the view that I hold very vigorously, that this country is going to have to do better in the future, that we have responsibilities to meet not only to ourselves but to the cause of fr..."