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    "title": "The President John F. Kennedy Lecture by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Free University of Berlin June 26, 1964",
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    "ocrText": "88\n6 -\n3 (f)\nJuno 26, 1964\nThis capacity for imaginative response to change can do more then\npresorve or improve our own societics. Atlantic partnership can promote\nunity and freedom for all Europe.\nIt can set up a kind of gravitational pull on the countrics to the\nEast, permitting them, by slow stages of internal transformation, even-\ntually to achicve their true destiny.\nProsident Kennedy came to this continent last year primarily to keop\nthe door open for Atlantic partnorship and European unity. Last month,\nLt the dedication of a memorial to Ceneral Marshall, the father of the\nMarshall Plan, Prosident Johnson declared, \"we will continue to build\nbridges across the gulf which has divided us from Eastern Europe\" to\nspced the timc whon all of Europe may be joined in a shared socicty of\nfrocdom.\nAll this has a special meaning for Germany. For it is in an inte-\ngrated Europe that Gormany will find its approprinte role of dignity and\nequality.\nAnd it is in an integrated Europe that Germany will most surely re-\ncover its own unity -- a goal to which my country is deeply and unalter-\nably pledged.\nI believe the youth of Europe shares in the creative and imaginative\nspirit that underlies these efforts, There is widespread support : among\nthe young Europeans for European unity as the best way of assuring penco\nand progress.\nAnd I am sure they are right in their confidence that European inte-\ngration runs with the grain of history. Of course, there will be 'delnys\nand disappointments; history is rarely a painless process.\nBut, if are not divertod or discouraged, it is in a truly united\nGermany and united Europe that your children may grow to manhood\nThe fourth ally freedom requires if it is to der and flourish\nis education. It was no accident or coincidence that the Frce Univcrsity\nof Berlin was founded so early in the life of West Berlin.\nThis University is integral to your freedom, just as education and\nfree inquiry are integral and essential to freedom wherover it exists.\nAs Thomas Jefferson, one of the moving forces of American independence,\nobserved 150 years ago, \"if a nation expccts to be ignorant-end frce,\nin a state of civilization, it expects what never vas and never will bo.\"\n7 -"
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