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Robert Kennedy: Delivering News of King's Death
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Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89326670
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RFK said:"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."
I remember both events quite well, and the riots in the summer of 1968.NPR said:Two months later, Robert Kennedy himself was felled by an assassin's bullet.
Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89326670
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