“This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents.”
John F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Address (Primary source)
On the evening of June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a televised and radio address to the nation on civil rights, broadcast from the Oval Office hours after Alabama Governor George Wallace yielded to federalised National Guardsmen and permitted two Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.
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— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Disputed