"The torch has been passed to a..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.
More by John F Kennedy
“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.”
“The basis of effective government is public confidence.”
“I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.”
More on Generations
“Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.”
“One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.”
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
More on Human Rights
“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.”
“The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.”
“Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.”