John F. Kennedy Citizens Quotations

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.