It is from numberless diverse acts of courage such as these that the belief that human history has
is thus 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, and crossing each other from
a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples Build a Current that
can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance.
And our new closeness is stripping away the false masks, the illusion of differences which
is the root of injustice and of hate and of war.
Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world
is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ends at river shore, his common humanity is
enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town or his views and the color
of his skin.
It is your job, the task of young people in this world, to strip the last remnants of
that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.
It is these qualities which make of our youth today the only true international community.
More than this, I think that we could agree on what kind of a world we would all want
to build.
It would be a world which demanded of each government that it accept its responsibility
to insure social justice.
It would be a world of constantly accelerating economic progress -- not material welfare
as an end in/of itself, but as a means to liberate the capacity of every human being
to pursue his talents and to pursue his hopes.
It would, in short, be a world that we would all be proud to have built.
Our answer is the world's hope, to rely on youth
The cruelties and the 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 and danger which comes with even the most
peaceful progress.
This world 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 life of ease.
First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can
do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance,
or injustice and violence.
Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work
of a single man.
It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year-old Thomas Jefferson
who proclaimed that "all men are created equal.
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