“One person can make a difference, and every person should try.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Political scientist Thomas E. Cronin, "Leadership and Democracy", in 'Liberal Education', 1987
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“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Suzy Platt
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