Words worth keeping
The voices this work keeps returning to, quoted as they said it.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States
“I’m an idealist without illusions.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States
“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.”
Robert F. Kennedy
United States Senator
“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
Robert F. Kennedy
United States Senator
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, 1776
