Worth Repeating - No. 1

I didn't write it. Just found it to be worth repeating

"First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that "all men are created equal."

"Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and then the total -- all of these acts -- will be written in the history of this generation. ...

(Later in the same speech)

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world -- which yields most painfully to change."

--- Robert F. Kennedy ---

Reviews

[Devons]

Prophetic words. But then a lot of what both Jack and Bobby Kennedy said while they were alive will seem inevitably even more poignant and tragic now. They were martyrs, indeed. Great speech, and spot on the truth. He and his brother paid for it though. Well, there's the proof of what he said.