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Robert F. Kennedy: “Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that…”

On the recordApril 3, 1968
Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.
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Robert F. Kennedy
New York

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy urges for compassion and understanding in response to violence.

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