So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
From Marian Wright Edelman
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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