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"On the Mindless Menace of Violence" is a speech given by United States Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. He delivered it in front of the City Club of Cleveland at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, made his remarks while in Indianapolis, Indiana, after speaking at two Indiana universities ...
Below is a limited selection of speeches given by Robert F. Kennedy, sorted chronologically. For more information please contact Kennedy.Library@nara.gov.
“Do they know about Martin Luther King?” he said once aboard the truck. Kennedy spoke for about five minutes that night. He touched on feelings of anguish, the desire for revenge, learning through suffering, and what the country needed now--all from the heart.
• What human rights did Robert F. Kennedy defend? • How did Robert F. Kennedy work to advance human rights? • How do words and speeches inform and inspire action? OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students will: • Understand the power of words and speeches to inform and inspire people.
Mar 31, 2022 · Facing the now stunned and disbelieving audience, some of whom were weeping at their loss, Kennedy gave an impassioned approximately six-minute speech on the need for compassion in the face of violence that has gone down in history as one of the great extemporaneous political speeches in the modern era.
We can do better in our relationships to other countries around the rest of the globe. President Kennedy, when he campaigned in 1960, he talked about the loss of prestige that the United States had suffered around the rest of the globe, but look at what our condition is at the present time.
