JFK: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

[doublethink]

Run time: 02:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AesVsRvOEo   Posted on YouTube: November 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: ricthuse Views on YouTube: 440   Posted on DU: November 17, 2011 By DU Member: doublethink Views on DU: 2297

 

[fascisthunter]

1. and yet our president today sidesteps the issue

but I and many others know the true reason.

[doublethink]

3. ......

:grouphug:

[fascisthunter]

4. I have never seen this clip... thank you

I really mean it. It shows me what this country is capable of... a President who hasn't sold out.

[doublethink]

5. That ....

and shows me also what 'we' are up against, but we haven't sold out either. Peace.

[Bryn]

2. So true

How sad since they sic those cops on OWS protesters..I am afraid that it will lead to violence eventually. I hope not, but they (TPTB) WILL not listen to us the People due to their greed.

[doublethink]

6. ........

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ~Clarence Darrow

[Maccagirl]

7. His American University speech of June 1963

Jacqueline Kennedy always said that she considered this his finest speech. It's hard to watch and realize what the world has become since then.

[slipslidingaway]

8. knr - text link ...

http://www1.american.edu/media/speeches/Kennedy.htm

"...I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war - - and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.

Some say that it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or world disarmament - - and that it will be useless until the leaders of the Soviet Union adopt a more enlightened attitude. I hope they do. I believe we can help them do it. But I also believe that we must re-examine our own attitude - as individuals and as a Nation - - for our attitude is as essential as theirs. And every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace, should begin by looking inward - - by examining his own attitude toward the possibilities of peace, toward the Soviet Union, toward the course of the Cold War and toward freedom and peace here at home.

First: Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many of us think it is unreal. But that is dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable - - that mankind is doomed - - that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.

We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade - - therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable - - and we believe they can do it again..."



Full video ... 28 minutes
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153206-1

[doublethink]

9. Thank you for the text and ...

for the link.

[slipslidingaway]

12. My pleasure and a kick today. n/t

[doublethink]

13. You know I purposefully did not donate to the last DU fundraiser ....

I wanted to wait until today .... easier for me to remember the date ....
Peace.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Talking about Cuba I guess

M26-7

[Dover]

11. Perhaps, but I contend they WANT violence because then the rules

of engagement get scrambled. There is no more artifice of civility or humanity.
And they have the guns.

So peaceful revolution should be maintained at all cost so that hearts are won.
I hope we will focus our energies instead on living as though we are already where we
say we want to be.