michonnegrimes: We aren’t able to solve all of the problems that this country faces overnight,

michonnegrimes:

We aren’t able to solve all of the problems that this country faces overnight, but is that any good reason why we should say, “Let’s not even try?” That’s what we’re going to do today. We are trying. We are trying. I refuse to see us live on the accomplishments of another generation. I refuse to see this country, and all of us, shrink from these struggles, which are our responsibility in our time. What we are now talking about - in our children’s day - will seem to be the ordinary business of government.The business of the government is the business of the people.–JFK, 1962

Happy Birthday, Jack Kennedy!