John F. Kennedy Quotes
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
Kennedy, John F. "Commencement Address at American University in Washington." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, United States Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 462.
What is interesting about this quotation is that there were many at the time who thought that different people in different parts of the world and cultures were of different species. Science at that point did not even realize that all humans had a common ancestor. It makes the quotation all the more interesting.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.