“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”

Address at the University of Pennsylvania (6 May 1964), quoted in [http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/05/about-one-fifth-of-people-are-against.html The Philadelphia Inquirer (7 May 1964)

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American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy 1925–1968

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