from rfk (found in the link about the busboy in that iconic photo)

[niyad]

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, s/he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

[tk2kewl]

1. RFK was poetic

Bernie's more blunt, but still fighting the same good fight.

[niyad]

4. indeed

[mountain grammy]

5. Justice, that's what it's all about.

Justice.

[PufPuf23]

2. One could argue that lossing RFK has had more impact than losing JFK

RFK would have won the Democratic primary in 1968 and would have been POTUS instead of Nixon.

In hindsight, the JFK assassination was a coup.

I have always considered the 2000 election a coup.

[niyad]

3. it certainly seems that way.

[LiberalArkie]

6. RFK was to be my first election. I remember where I was on the highway and where I pulled over

when it came on the car radio.

[PufPuf23]

8. I was politicized in 1968 and have stayed the course as a liberal

though did not use that term then.

I was in 5th grade in a San Francisco suburb living with relatives when JFK was murdered. We were gathered in the multipurpose room for TV coverage until our caregivers/parents could be contacted and we went home early and had the next days off.

I was at a boarding school near San Francisco in 1968 and attended anti-Vietnam rallies in Berkeley and San Francisco and rallies in San Francisco for McCarthy, Humphrey (as protestor), and Wallace (as mocker).

I was at my parents for summer when RFK was shot (we did not have TV nor same day newspapers) and learned the next day from a SF Giants radio broadcast.

[1monster]

7. Robert Kennedy's Affirmation Day Speech, South Africa, 1966

This is a recording of his speech... I really miss that voice.

https://m.

[niyad]

9. thank you for that find.

[hifiguy]

10. A couple more from Robert Kennedy

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.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?



Words cannot describe what we lost when he was so senselessly taken from us.

[niyad]

11. thank you for those quotes as well

[hifiguy]

12. He is one of the only true heroes I have had in my adult life.

Einstein, Sagan, Gandhi, Mandela and RFK.

[SusanaMontana41]

13. Great story, LA Times. Heartbreaking. Made me cry.

I visited the JFK Library 30 years ago. JFK was great, but Bobby was my guy. So I searched for the RFK exhibit first. Found it tucked in a corner. (It probably wasn't "tucked in a corner," but I'm biased.)

The exhibit was amazing. The feature I remember most was an enormous, back-lit photo of RFK during 1968. That photo covered the wall. I loved it, but it made me sad, like everyone else who appreciated his work as attorney general and senator and saw his potential as president.

Anyone who hasn't read "Robert Kennedy and His Times," by Arthur Schlesinger, is doing herself a disservice.

RFK and I do have a connection of sorts: I was born on his 39th birthday. That makes me really happy.