Martin L. King and Robert Kennedy
April 4th 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Robert Kennedy, that was at the time serving as senator of New York, wanted personally to deliver the shocking news to the people of Indianapolis. In his improvised speech, he informed the gathered crowd of the assassination, adding: ‘… But we have to […]
April 4th 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Robert Kennedy, that was at the time serving as senator of New York, wanted personally to deliver the shocking news to the people of Indianapolis.
In his improvised speech, he informed the gathered crowd of the assassination, adding:
‘… But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black’.