1963
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Speech in Chicago
The more closely one looks at the cost and deployment of our crime prevention efforts, the more apparent it becomes that we have put too much responsibility at the end of the line, rather than at the beginning. Enforcement and correction can only do part of the job.
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Speech in Chicago
Time and time again the American people, facing danger and seemingly insurmountable odds, have mobilized the ingenuity, resourcefulness, strength and bravery to meet the situation and triumph. In this long and critical struggle, the American system of free enterprise must be our major weapon. We must continue to prove to the world that we can…
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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City
We have found that man’s hold on the globe is a precarious one. We always thought that our destiny was cradled in another Hand. And when Mr. Khrushchev reported that the Cosmonauts
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Speech at the Ceremonies Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The signers of the Constitution, for all their foresight, couldn’t have dreamed of the America we live in today. The remarkable thing is that their work is as alive and as meaningful for us as it was for them—and as it will be for our grandchildren.
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Speech in Washington, D.C.
We have not been getting the truth about America to the world, particularly to the young intellectuals in the foreign nations, and particularly in those countries which are just growing, which have just come onto the world scene. Meanwhile, Communism, armed not with truth but with intensive, attractive propaganda, has been turning them against us.
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Robert F. Kennedy in a group photograph with Civil Rights leaders
Description Robert F. Kennedy in a group photograph with Civil Rights leaders in the Rose Garden, June 22, 1963. Date Copyright Tags Share Have any questions about licensing? Per the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code), for a library or archives to legally provide a reproduction of a copyrighted item, the…
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RFK speaking through a bullhorn at a Civil Rights protest
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