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By John F. Kennedy
...the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
- Source
- Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From John F. Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963. The words end the sentence "It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that..." and are quoted here as a clause.