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If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

John F. Kennedy
Children, School, Dark
Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

John F. Kennedy
Happiness, Jobs, Greek

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

John F. Kennedy
Responsibility, Decision
Fourth of July Address at Independence Hall, delivered 4 July 1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

John F. Kennedy
Appreciation, People, Presidential
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

John F. Kennedy
Courage, Men, Bravery
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.534, Best Books on

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

John F. Kennedy
War, Ohio, Cities

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Looks, Wilderness

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

John F. Kennedy
Responsibility, Rights, Justice
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.407, Best Books on

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

John F. Kennedy
Grandfather, Albatross, Company

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Believe, Views
Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 1960.

That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.

John F. Kennedy
Independent, Men, Law

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

John F. Kennedy
Party, Men, Past

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

John F. Kennedy
Peace, June, Cities
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

John F. Kennedy
Song, Reality, Phones

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

John F. Kennedy
Minorities, Melting, Pot

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John F. Kennedy
Art, Creativity, Roots
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

John F. Kennedy
Party, Zest, Ideas

The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

John F. Kennedy
Christian, Strong, Men
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

John F. Kennedy
Mean, Men, Hands

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

John F. Kennedy
Air, Order, Iron
John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

John F. Kennedy
Basketball, Children, School
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.309, Best Books on

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

John F. Kennedy
Responsibility, Unfinished Business, People

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

John F. Kennedy
Views, Issues, Political

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

John F. Kennedy
Country, Sacrifice, Careers
John F. Kennedy (2015). “Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.15, Harper Collins

Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

John F. Kennedy
Strong, Gum, World
"Remarks at the dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York". November 8, 1963.