Make The World New Again by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

When my father, President Kennedy, talked of a new frontier, he was not speaking of a set of promises but a set of challenges; challenges of the mind and heart and spirit, the challenge of giving of ourselves, of giving to our country.

Somebody else’s government is not what we want. If we believe in civil rights and human rights and closing the racial divide, then it is up to us. If we believe in clean air and clean water, then it is up to us. If we want a Supreme Court that will protect the freedoms in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including the right to privacy, that will keep our personal, financial and medical information from being up for grabs and will guarantee the right to make our own reproductive decisions, then it is up to us. If we believe that we have seen enough gun violence in our land and in our lifetimes, that guns should no longer take the lives of those we love, then it is up to us. We can make the world new again if only we try.