Revolutionary Quote of the Day: RFK

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?"

-Robert F. Kennedy

Don't know why I haven't yet made this an RQOTD. It seems an obvious choice. A well known quote, and for good reason. It's a Barack Obama, Audacity of Hope, kind of quote. Although with the recent firestorm over Obama's former pastor's comments, that hope is fading slightly. I will post about it shortly.

I'm not sure I can keep calling this Revolutionary Quote of the Day if I don't post one every day. I missed a few days. Ok, not to cheapen the quote, but searching for it, I found it with this addendum, which I have to admit, is pretty funny:

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."

-George.

Whoever George is.

-Fight the powers.

Revolutionay Quote of the Day: Gloria Steinem

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

-Gloria Steinem.

Today's RQOTD is from an icon of the feminist movement, author, journalist, founder and publisher of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem. Ms. Steinem was in the news recently for, though I am a fan of hers, I have to admit, an unfair and unwarranted criticism of John McCain's service to our country as a POW. McCain's service to our country should be honored. Not many people could have gone through what he went through and survived to tell the story. I think Ms. Steinem was wrong to minimize it. Now if she had called John McCain bat crap crazy, I'd have no problem with that.

Update:
When I woke up this morning and looked at this quote it seemed vaguely familiar. That's because it's a repeat. I had posted it before.

Revolutionay Quote of the Day: Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation”

-Jose Ortega y Gasset

Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish Philosopher (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955). This quote mirrors the one from yesterday by Jefferson. Again emphasizing that the fight for freedom is constant. There is always a new source of tyranny to oppose. Every generation must liberate itself for itself.

-Fight the powers.

Revolutionay Quote of the Day is Back

“Every generation needs a new revolution."
-Thomas Jefferson.

I've decided to revive something I did for awhile when I first started this blog a couple years or so ago. The Revolutionary Quote of the Day (RQOTD). For the first RQOTD in a while I'm reusing one I've used at least once before not only because it's a great and important quote, but because most people will be surprised by who said it, unless of course they already know the quote. If you said it and asked people who it was from, most people would probably say it was some 60's radical or communist revolutionary, but it was one of our founding fathers.

I also like the quote because it reminds us that liberty and freedom aren't static. It is not something we won over 200 years ago and unless some tyrant or outside force comes along and takes it from us, we will always have it. It is something that we have to fight for, and be vigilant regarding constantly. The challenges to our freedoms are constant and they come from not only from the outside, but from the very people we should expect to protect them. Those challenges come from people with the word freedom on their lips, who wrap themselves in the flag, and shout about patriotism.

Those challenges come from people who lecture others about not putting their hand over their heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, or for not wearing flag lapel pins, but don't seem to be bothered by NSA warrantless spying on every citizen in the country. People who aren't bothered by people being picked up and rendered to other countries or Gitmo to be tortured. People who aren't bothered by political prosecutions by the US Attorneys office right here in the US. But Jefferson said it in the strongest terms. Not that we should simply be ever vigilant. But that every generation needs it's own revolution. That how important he believed it was.