Quote of the Day

To Tame the Savageness of Man and Make Gentle the Life of This World.

Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

- from: an impromptu speech

 delivered by (then-Presidential candidate) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 

April 4, 1968 (the night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination)

Some Words From Our Past . . . Looking Toward Our Future

 
* Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.  Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

* As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

* A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation 

that is afraid of its people.

* Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-  John F. Kennedy

WHAT IS A "LIBERAL?"

[I]f by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." 

- by John F. Kennedy, September 14, 1960.

FORTY-SIX YEARS AGO TODAY

 

May 29, 1917 - November 22,1963

On the Anniversary of Kennedy's Death, Extremism Lives On