The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. He thanked the professor. The milk of human kindness comes from deeper source of life.

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A reader of history will be aware that those who strive for great societal changes often belong to the upper class. For example in Western Civilization, the two Gracchi brothers of Roman antiquity, patricians who both suffered martyrdom; the nobles who were spiritual leaders and protectors of the heretical medieval religious sect, the Cathars, who were immolated on a pyre; down to the many revolutionary leaders embracing the creed of Marx and Engels, who, like their prophets, were cultivated upper class bourgeois. A contemporary example is the Senator Edward Kennedy, who passed away just a few weeks ago: a Roman Catholic and a millionaire who stood in defense of the poor and the oppressed for over four decades, he passed into history as the foremost legislator of the USA.

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