“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”– Everett Dirksen Related Quotes “Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”– John F. Kennedy “It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”– John Ruskin “Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.”– Stokely Carmichael