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I think the young felt that he was going to battle to insure that the
world trould still be intact when it was turned over to them for their di-
recticn, and that it would, perhaps be even a little better place than
when he and his generation inherited it. That was his cbjective. He
felt, in fact, that it was his responsibility.
It is often said
that the young will inherit the future.
of course they will: the laws of lifo and desth make this inevitable.
But this proposition ceases to be a commonplace when older people begin
to act upon it. And never in history has it been more necessary to re-
cognize the just claims of youth than it is today.
It is all very well to criticize the older generation and to demand
a greater say in the future of the world. But at the same time, we
you and I -- must recognize our particular responsibility to our commu-
nities and to our countries.
It is that responsibility about which I would like to talk today
and how 170 can best discharge that responsibility in a world swept with
change. This, it seems to me, must be the greatest concorn of the young,
the free, and the educated of the wcrld.
In quieter times when the pace of scientific and social change was
slow, it might have been possible to forget about the young and for the
young to be unconcerned about the future. Put our world has changed more
in the last hundred years than in the thousand years preceding.
Wie live in the midst of an endless revolution -- social, technical,
intellcctual. It reconstructs every asrect of our environment and of
our daily lives. The onvard rush of science and technology is trans-
forming the face of our earth.
President Kennedy once described the rush of this development by
figuratively condensing the fifty thousand years of .man's recorded
history into half a century. Of these fifty years, he said, we would
know very little abcut the first forty, except that man learned to use
animal skins to cover himself.
Then about ten years ago, in 'this anolosy, an emerged from caves
to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five yenrs ago, man learned
to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity begen loss than two
years The printing press chine this year, and then, less then two
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Address by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on President John F. Kennedy.
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