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"Where else, " asked President Kennedy, "in a non-totalitarian county, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all.

What is the role of compromise in today's political process, whether in the United States Senate or your town's governing council, or even in your own student council? What circumstances might call for compromise, and what circumstances might demand a refusal to compromise? Others, however, depended upon an ability to compromise.

Many of the acts of courage that JFK narrated involved refusal to compromise.

1) Why might it be more admirable than such qualities as toleration, charity, or justice, for example? What other virtues might contend with courage as "the most admirable"?

Why might President Kennedy have judged courage to be "the most admirable of human virtues"? (p.vii) Why might it be of primary importance in some instances to stand fast for principle regardless of the consequences? In his "Foreword," Robert Kennedy wrote that his brother's book "is a study of men who, at risk to themselves, their futures, even the well-being of their children, stood fast for principle." (p.What definitions of courage emerge from these profiles? How would you define courage? Do you agree or disagree with the extended definition of courage presented in the book's final chapter? Why? To what degree is Kennedy's conception of courage relevant today?.What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us." It is as Robert Kennedy states in the foreword, "not just stories of the past but a hook of hope and confidence for the future.

Taft.Īwarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage-now featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964-resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them."ĭuring 1954-1955, John F. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it. Kennedy Note to Teachers "This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-courage.