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On the recordMay 18, 1962
If you want to have equal opportunity for all Americans, if we want to rebuild our cities, if we want to provide transit in and out of our cities, if we want to educate our children, if we want to have colleges and universities to which they can go, if we want to have medical schools to train our doctors, if we want to make this country as wonderful a place as it can be for the 300 million people who will live in this country within 40 years, then we have to do our task today.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in New York City at the Dedication of the Penn Station South Urban Renewal Project.

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