Ron Blake

“Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God”
― Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“the President was deciding, for the U.S., the Soviet Union, Turkey, NATO, and really for all mankind….”
― Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

“First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the worlds ills -­‐-­‐ against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the worlds great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-­‐year-­‐old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. 'Give me a place to stand,”
― Robert F. Kennedy