Listen: RFK Eulogy of Martin Luther King

[WillyBrandt]

One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

"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."

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_165.html

[Minstrel Boy]

1. Isn't it amazing?

What giants they were.

[JohnKleeb]

2. Yep Bobby at his best

"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"
Robert F. Kennedy, after George Bernard Shaw
Thats another one

http://www.rfkmemorial.org/RFK/rfk_mlk.htm
heres the whole speech
RFK I always wonder what could have been :(.

[WillyBrandt]

3. To tame the savageness of man...

...and make gentle the life of this world.

Let us dedicate ourselves to that.

[eileen from OH]

4. It's ironic you should post this. . .

near the anniversary of JFK's death. While that affected me greatly, it was Bobby's death that broke my heart.

eileen from OH

[Merlin]

5. Incredible that this was also an ex temp speech under great duress.

He spoke from the heart, having discarded the speech he was to give, and having been informed only minutes earlier of the Memphis tragedy.

I had spent a day with RFK in suburban Philly one week earlier (the day after LBJ's abdication), and had spoken with MLK in Cleveland the day before he was shot. God what a time that was.

Please don't talk to me about "lone nut assassins." That whole deal was the orchestrated destruction of liberalism.

[frank frankly]

7. well said, merlin

so very true

[newyawker99]

6. Another quote from RFK

"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."