"Let us 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."
---Robert F. Kennedy, speaking in Indianapolis on April4, 1968, two hours after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I am reading a wonderful book: "The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America" by Thurston Clarke.
That was also that last time a lot of us dared to put much hope in a politician or a "hero."
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