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In this excerpt from President Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address, what idea does he seek to change?

"One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their helrs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed
from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully
free until all its citizens are free.
We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more
Importantly, to each other that this is the land of the free except for the Negroes, that we have no second-class tizens except Negroes; that we have no
class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?" (5 points)

1)The idea of slavery

2)The idea of injustice

3)The idea of freedom

4)The idea of citizenry

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Answer:

The idea of freedom, I think.

Step-by-step explanation:

He's saying how the US is free for some, but for African Americans, even tough slavery was abolished, it is not truly free for them This is due to segregation and racism.

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