11/03/1983
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"I think a certain faith was restored for a lot of people in our institutions of government."
"All men are brothers, that they must forever forsake the ways of violence and live together in peace."
"The people of the United States... join millions throughout the world in fervent prayer for his full and rapid recovery."
"Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and goodness—an inspiration to the world—has been struck today by a would-be assassin's bullet."