The denial of constitutional rights to some of our fellow Americans on account of race--at the ballot box and elsewhere--disturbs the national conscience, and subjects us to the charge of world opinion that our democracy is not equal to the high promise of our heritage.
Kennedy condemns racial discrimination and its impact on American democracy in his State of the Union address.
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