Earlier I posted a link to an address that John F. Kennedy made at Amherst College honoring Robert Frost. Towards the end of that article, there was another link to a Brainpickings page about Leonard Bernstein’s response to JFK’s assassination.
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence. — Leonard Bernstein
and, I know it’s in the quote box:
Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein
You can read it all here.
