"It is your job.." - Robert F. Kennedy - 1966

I came across this great quote recently from Robert F. Kennedy's eloquent and visionary speech given at Cape Town University in 1966.

It really cuts to the chase......

"Everywhere new technology and communications [bring] men and nations closer together, the concerns of one inevitably [become] the concerns of all. And our new closeness is stripping away the false masks, the illusion of differences which is the root of injustice and of hate and of war.

Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ends at river shore, his common humanity is enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town or his views and the colour of his skin.

It is - it is your job, the task of young people in this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man..."