Robert F. Kennedy Speech

In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of nation we are and what direction we want to move in.

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I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

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We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we--and we will have difficult times in the future.

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And let's 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.

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Through the awful grace of God

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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,

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For those of you who are black--considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who are responsible--

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So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King--

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I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world...

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