Thread: Echoes from the past

Forty years ago today, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while running for President of the United States:

"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?'
I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"


.......after George Bernard Shaw

He spoke the following words on the Death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -

Except for changing "United States" to "South Africa", the rest is as true today as it was then ........

"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 or lawlessness; but 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 they be black ...

Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 1968

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