Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 2095 |
AUTHOR: | Robert Francis Kennedy (192568) |
QUOTATION: | Our answer is the world’s hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement of danger. It demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Senator Kennedy was quoting Samuel Ullmans description of youth; see No. 2099. |
SUBJECTS: | Youth |