"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."

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Source : 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

Barbara Jordan

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