We choose to go to do these things, not because they are easy

[edhopper]

but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,
because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
JFK

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and ask 'Why not?'
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
RFK

It's time for the Democratic members of Congress and the Senate with their Profiles in Cowardice, to heed the words of these great men.
If not now when? If not you, who?