Robert F. Kennedy: Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Cape Town

Glossary

Acropolis a citadel in ancient Athens, Greece

Archimedes Greek philosopher of the third century BCE

Aristotle Greek philosopher of the fourth century BCE

Budapest Hungarian city, scene in 1956 of a rebellion, supressed by Soviet troops, against the country’s Communist government

camps at Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II

Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of The Prince and Other Discourses, the source of the quotation

march to the beat of different drummers an allusion to Walden by the nineteenth-century American author Henry David Thoreau: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

No Irish Need Apply a sign commonly placed in the window of a business looking to hire employees in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Pericles Greek statesman and general of the fifth century BCE

touchstone standard, basis for comparison

young general Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE)

young Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)

young monk Martin Luther (1483–1546)

young woman Joan of Arc (1412–1431)