“Everywhere new technology and communications bring men and nations closer together, the concerns of one inevitably becoming the concerns of all. But our new closeness had not yet stripped away the false masks, the illusions of difference which are the root of injustice and hate and war. Earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ended at the river shore, his common humanity enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his views and his town and the color of his skin. And therefore the survival of the human species itself depends on our ability to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.”

—ROBERT F. KENNEDY