9 quotes
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
It is your job, the task of young people in this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ends at river shore, his common humanity is enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town or his views and the color of his skin.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. And everyone here will ultimately be judged — will ultimately judge himself — on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)