1983:To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the moral courage, the realism, the idealism, the tenacity, and the ability to sacrifice some of the current comfort to invest in the future.. I believe that this generation will rise to the challenge.. The experts believe that, like the Democratic Party itself, the less than forty-year-old voters are prepared to sell their souls for some security, real or illusory. They have misjudged us. Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still live, buried deep in our broken hearts. Joe Biden
About This Quote

The quote is about how the younger generation of the 1980s needed to rise up and fulfill their potential. It was a time when many people had lost hope in the future. They had given up on all the dreams they had dreamed of just a few years before. The older generation of that time thought that these young people were too lazy to do anything.

They were wrong. They had just given up on their dreams but still wanted to see them through to fruition.

Source: Promises To Keep: On Life And Politics

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