American children have lost seven IQ points since 2000. - Robert F. Kennedy

For the first time in history, pharmacies were telling doctors what they can and cannot prescribe,” says Dr. McCullough. The directives shattered the traditional sacred relationship between doctors and patients that the profession had nurtured and protected since Hippocrates.

After my father’s death, I watched my mother and Uncle Teddy — my father’s last living brother — plea to the judge to allow his alleged killer, Sirhan Sirhan, to escape the death penalty.

And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.