JFK believed that world peace is not only necessary but also possible.
“Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process -- a way of solving problems...
"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
Welcome! May we pour you a cup of tea? For this is an oasis with a mission, custom-made for we the people to consider, with neighbors near and far, how best to address our humanitarian and planetary crises, how best to solve our increasingly wild and fractious rides around the sun.
May the insights and inspirations throughout this town meeting for the planet — presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music — move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into winds of change we so urgently need.
May the insights and inspirations throughout this planetary assembly -- presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music -- move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into the winds of change we so urgently need.
Let us together orchestrate a future that works for all sentient beings, a future that empowers succeeding generations with unrestrained kindness, understanding, love, and, not least, deep respect for the enthralling and necessary variety of life on Earth.
