"What kind of a peace do I mean, and what kind of a peace do we seek?"

[WilliamPitt]

What kind of a peace do I mean, and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana, enforced upon the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave, or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on Earth worth living. Not peace in our time, but peace in all time.

Our problems are man-made, and therefore can be solved by man. Because, in the final analysis, our greatest common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

We all breathe the same air.

We all cherish our children's future.

And we are all mortal.

- "The Peace Speech," John F. Kennedy, American University, June 1963

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, WilliamPitt.

[longship]

2. "Let me work."

Grass

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Here read by Sandburg:

[WilliamPitt]

3. Amazing

Thank you.

[longship]

4. One from my very early youth.

Certainly grade school.

Those words, "I am grass. Let me work." Are indelibly etched into my brain in context with war.

(Also etched in there when mowing the lawn. "You are grass. Let me work.&quot



Thanks for the response, good Will.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Thanks W P !!!

We all breathe the same air and my moon is your moon.

Love, Peace and Shelter. littlemissmartypants

[DesertDiamond]

6. What a great man he was.

[rickyhall]

7. That's why they killed him.

[Oakenshield]

8. This country will never know peace.

Not in my lifetime anyway.

[heaven05]

9. great speech

didn't matter. Didn't change a fucking thing or many minds that could effect an outcome such as he was speaking of.

[tclambert]

10. He was the last President who had "the vision thing."

We used to dream great dreams. Now we just argue about token raises to the minimum wage, or whether deficits hurt the job market. Even Obamacare is a mash-up of a compromise program instead of the simple single-payer system so many of us wanted.

[logosoco]

11. Thanks for posting this.

My son heads to the Peace Corps the day after tomorrow.

Every little bit can make a difference.

We are all made of the same stuff and live with the same energy (although some seem to be using the negative energy!)

Peace to all. Peace within.

[Voice for Peace]

12. Peace is a real thing. Peace resides in the heart of every human being.

My commitment is to peace. I want to see peace dancing
in the heart of every human being.

In my travels around the world, I’ve experienced a lot of things —
the most baffling of which is people’s explanation of why there can’t
be peace. People focus on the symptoms, but not the disease. If we
don’t take care of the disease, the symptoms will never go away.

And we all know what the symptoms look like: greed, war, selfishness,
violence, and an increasing loss of trust.

Peace is a real thing. Peace resides in the heart of every human being.
Peace has to emanate from you. - Prem Rawat

https://www.wopg.org/en/

[DeSwiss]

13. K&R!

"Because human perception is literally incarnation . . . each of us must poet the world or fashion it within us as our primary and constant mode of awareness."

~Marshall McLuhan

[littlemissmartypants]

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