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"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun."

-- William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet
Act 3, Scene 2

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"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Like it or not, we live in interesting times, and everyone here will ultimately be judged, will ultimately judge himself, on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society, and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.

Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Aristotle tells us that "At the Olympic games it is not the finest and the strongest men who are crowned, but they who enter the lists.... So too in the life of the honorable and the good it is they who act rightly who win the prize."

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world."

-- Robert Francis Kennedy
Excerpt from Day of Affirmation Address
University of Capetown
Capetown, South Africa
June 6, 1966

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