In the reading, Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., True or false, Kennedy asks people to "tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." Where is this quote derived from?

The Greeks

Explanation:

In this statement following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy uses the quote to propose a way in which the world can be kinder and more gentle. Before he presented the quote, he introduced it in the following way:

"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."

The introduction that Kennedy provides of his quote shows that he obtained this quote from the Greeks.

the quote is derived from the Greeks.