First, let me make it very clear that I don’t usually accept challenges or follow prompts. My internal system just doesn’t operate that way. I don’t know why it does or doesn’t do things, but have long since stopped trying to understand my internal logic and just accept it.

That being said, Doug Branson of Elusive Trope nominated me for this 3 Day, 3 Quote challenge and because I do post quotes on occasion I thought it was within reason that I could comply. Besides, I like his site, as I like many sites, and thought why not? Now I had posted a quote very recently from the Martin Ritt film The Front which is a really good film about the McCarthy witch hunts, a dark period of American history, and one somewhat appropriate to revisit now that the climate of the US is filled with fear and finger pointing. So I wasn’t going to start today.

BUT since November 22nd is also a day with strong resonance for us born long ago enough to remember who I consider the last great president of the United States, whose life was cut short this day and thus robbed us in the States of a chance of a different future. His name is, of course, John F. Kennedy. And I still get choked up thinking of him and my other political hero, his brother Bobby. Those were the days I had real hope for my country. And unfortunately what followed has been a very mixed bag of leaders and one wrong-headed decision after another.

SO my first quote on this first day of attempting to fulfill this challenge is by him.

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy