What we need in the United States

By David Murray, Editor, Vital Speeches of the Day

If we were to name a fifth vital speech of this week it would have been Robert F. Kennedyโ€™s speech, delivered April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis. On the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, Kennedy told a shocked and grieving crowd (as speechwriter Cynthia Starks aptly reminds us):

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom and compassion toward one anotherโ€ฆ

And letโ€™s 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 its people.

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