"I pray for no more youth perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."
— Youth

January 1, 1970

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Aeschylus, reported in John Lewin, The House of Atreus (1966), p. 110. Adapted from Oresteia; the lines above are from Eumenides (The Furies). Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest (15 July 1970); Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309