A Spoken Word Quiz

Two questions for you today, what year were the following words spoken and name the person being quoted? After the quote scroll down for the answers.

"Our gross national product, now, is over $800 billion a year. It counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them."

"It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight riots in our cities."

"It does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play." "It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom, nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our country,"

"It measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

















When we will ever learn my friends, when will we ever learn. The words were spoken by Robert F. Kennedy in a speach at the University of Kansas in 1968, two months before he was assassinated.

Read more in an amazing column written by Steve Duin in the Metro Section of Today's Oregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/base/news/120579991452420.xml&coll=7

I am going to end with words from another RFK speach within three months of his death.

RFK quotes Aeschylus "Even in our sleep, pain which can't forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

Kennedy then ends "Let us then contain the savageness of man and make gentler the life of the world."