John F. Kennedy on Revolution
← Back to John F. Kennedy ProfileSpeaking on the Alliance for Progress, John F. Kennedy warned of potential violent upheaval in Latin America if peaceful socio-economic change was obstructed.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Amidst the Bay of Pigs aftermath, John F. Kennedy, addressing Khrushchev, framed the global struggle as a universal human drive for liberation, challenging Soviet ideology.
“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.”
“A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.”