In 1968, after the death of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy told the nation:
“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 or lawlessness.”
What we need, Kennedy said, is “love and wisdom and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.”
