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 love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country …
Robert F. Kennedy
at the death of Martin Luther King on April 4th, 1968
Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., p. 940