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Robert F. Kennedy: “We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization--black people amongst black, white people amongst…”

On the recordApril 3, 1968
We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization--black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another.
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Robert F. Kennedy
New York

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Kennedy warns against societal division and hatred.

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