04/19/1961
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"We have to build in this country a strong and vital society, that when we are a good neighbor in the United States, we shall be a good neighbor around the world."
"This Nation needs that kind of leadership in 1961 from the next President of the United States."
"Within our own Nation we must also give real leadership to the many moral and economic problems that face a large number of our citizens."
"I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."