Unappreciated JFK speeches...thread.

[Robb]

:D

My unsung fave: 1963, Remarks in Nashville at the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University.

An excerpt:

"But the educated citizen knows how much more there is to know. He knows that "knowledge is power," more so today than ever before. He knows that only an educated and informed people will be a free people, that the ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all, and that if we can, as Jefferson put it, "enlighten the people generally ... tyranny and the oppressions of mind and body will vanish, like evil spirits at the dawn of day." And, therefore, the educated citizen has a special obligation to encourage the pursuit of learning, to promote exploration of the unknown, to preserve the freedom of inquiry, to support the advancement of research, and to assist at every level of government the improvement of education for all Americans, from grade school to graduate school."

Read the whole thing here.

Or listen to it here.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Certainly rings true for our times...

Now if we can just convince thugs that they aren't enlightened...