Inspirational
Drawing inspiration from JFK’s landmark 1963 address at American University, RFK Jr. delivers a speech of monumental significance. He talks about how the US must prioritize peace and diplomacy in order to heal the country and establish “not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”
Dr. King’s speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, “Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.” #mlk
“It is not just an arbitrary idea that the world is good, but it is good because we can experience its goodness. We can experience our world as healthy and straightforward, direct and real, because our basic nature is to go along with the goodness of situations. The human potential for intelligence and dignity is […]
It’s not too often in a lifetime that we find somebody who speaks so well to the heart of the matter that we feel like there may just be a simple answer to the complex problem of human existence. What you were about to hear is an early morning moment in time with #CharlesEisenstein on the gift of life and the artist within us all.