Bobby Kennedy announcing the murder of MLK, Jr. Fourty* years ago today. I was struck by how the room turned from screams of horror to applause as Kennedy spoke of unity and respect for diversity. Where are our heroes like that? I want to believe Obama is one. I cannot imagine him or any other leader getting assasinated. Assasination seems like something that happened long ago never to occur again.
"He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. "
-- Agamemnon
"We must all learn to live together
as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.
We are tied together in the single garment of destiny,
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And
whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. "
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968,
the day before his departure from his death.
This was quoted by Robert F Kennedy in his speech announcing the
assassination of Martin Luther King on 4 April 1968; and the epitaph
his family inscribed on his grave marker in Arlington National Cemetery
*like the Canadian spelling?
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