John F. Kennedy Quotes About Revolution

• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

• A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Character, Successful

• A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Peaceful, Tasks

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

• We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heirs

  John F. Kennedy (2015). “Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.11, Harper Collins

• Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Mean, Space

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Southern, Rising

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

• We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Men, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.548, Best Books on

• Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Weapons, Revolution, Sides

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

• The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Past, Men

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

• A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

  John F. Kennedy

  Income, Revolution, Farming

• We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Leader, Want

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
  Ten thousand reflections
  hide the true gem.
  
  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Peaceful

• And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Men, Doctors

• A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Citizens, Revolution

  Acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 15 July (1960)

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