Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2095 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925–68) |
| QUOTATION: | Our answer is the world’s hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement of danger. It demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Senator Kennedy was quoting Samuel Ullman’s description of youth; see No. 2099. |
| SUBJECTS: | Youth |