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American History

SARose

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Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 01:03 PM

Jun 9

I sometimes wonder what America would be like if both Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King had lived.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Robert Kennedy

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Powerful!

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On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's funeral train ran from New York City to Washington, D.C. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 9 OP

I remember. niyad Jun 9 #1

Agree SARose Jun 9 #2

The Day Robert Kennedy got shot down lapfog_1 Jun 9 #3

Whereas RFK Jr's funeral should involve a plywood casket being tossed into a pauper's grave. Crowman2009 Jun 9 #4