Robert F. Kennedy soul touching speech

[bjorb]

Remember when we had real caring leaders like Robert Kennedy? I just found out about this speech, I felt like sharing it because I think that it is more relevant than ever. Again we are faced at a dangerous crossroad where we either move towards greater polarization and give in to hatred. Or follow the right way of wisdom and compassion. People need to hear this before it is to late. To let them rethink once more in what kind of country/World they really want to live. Racism is growing rapidly and it will consume us if nothing chances. It's not yet 1930. But you can see it from here and everything that follows with it.

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[quote author= description]April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and killed.

On that night, Robert F Kennedy, New York's senator back then, wanted to deliver the news to the people of Indianapolis, IN

Local police warned him, they won't be able to provide protection if the people wold riot because he was in the heart of the African-American ghetto.

He wrote his notes on his ride and started the speech without any drafts or prewritten words before his assistance would give him their proposed draft.

This speech was delivered on a back of a Flatbed truck.

Although all major cities had riots, Indianapolis remained calm after RFK's speech

63 days after this speech, RFK got assassinated.[/quote]

How would the World look like if Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, John Lennon were still alive and not assassinated? Instead we only have warmongerers, those who ordered out the assassinations are probably still even alive? They literally murdered all the good guys of that crucial era.

 

[3DStudent]

Thanks for sharing, it was touching. One great person speaking of another great person. It's still relevant today. The space between their hands in that monument I think represents the world that could be.

 

[bjorb]

[quote author= 3D Student]Thanks for sharing, it was touching. One great person speaking of another great person. It's still relevant today. The space between their hands in that monument I think represents the world that could be.[/quote]

Yes, I also found it touching, Robert didn't just give a speech. He spoke to the people directly addressing what was going on in their hearths while he suffered with them.

We don't see that anymore and ever since the lunatics have been running the asylum. Even so that we tend forget about better alternatives I think. The last speech I heard from the establishment was from Hillary. And she didn't came further than: ''America is great, because America is good.''

I suspect that while she degenerates, it will only get more retarded. But she has yet to top Bush.

This guy really didn't know where he was or what was going on most of the time.

For comparison and maybe for speeches yet to come when Hillary is selected while she degenerates further

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[Voyageur]

Thanks, bjorn. Here is RFK's April 4th transcript:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- 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; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And 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.

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we -- and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

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. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Thank you very much.

 

[aragorn]

There's a relatively new book out on RFK that is making some waves in the 'alt media':

A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
by Lisa Pease

A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Pease, LIsa, DiEugenio, James: 9781627310703: Amazon.com: Books

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This book has been out since December 2018, but I had never heard of it until I saw this article on Zerohedge today:

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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I liked the ZH article, and the book looks promising. It has good reviews and many are saying that Pease's research is thorough and meticulous. I think I'm gonna read this one in the near future.

As they point out in the ZH article, it's quite amazing that during a five year period (1963-1968) four prominent leaders were assassinated, with close to no investigation or uproar by the media.