Robert F. Kennedy, Statement on Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968

No Democrat would make a speech like this today, attempting to ease the pain of blacks rather than to inflame racial hatred, as the Obama White House and its agents in the leftist media are doing.

And no Democrat would call on the words of faith in Jesus to ease the pain. Leftists hate religion. Any public affectation of religion is a lie promulgated for political consumption and opportunism. The left has driven God from the public realm and is now crucifying those who express faith-based opinions on public affairs.

At American Rhetoric, "Robert F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr."

And this was in Indianapolis, Indiana, where leftists today are on a jihad against Christians. My, how regressives fail to heed the lessons of the past.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.

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 another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.

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