“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter.”
Barack Obama
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Given the political climate of the times, I thought I would offer some quotations from past leaders on the issue of immigration.
I want to point out that all of us, except for those who are 100 percent Native American, have either immigrated or descended from immigrants to the United States of America. To believe that we are under invasion from immigrants is a mistake, and those spreading that misinformation are cons and liars. This is not a time to be quiet. Writers need to speak.
50 years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was a Senator and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Presidency. The 1960s, and especially 1968, were a time of great turmoil in our country and the world. Robert Kennedy was a man who had grown into a compassionate and powerful liberal figure, one who offered hope to a divided country in despair.
RFK had won the primary in California and seemed poised to win the nomination, which would have made him a powerful candidate to become President. Then his life was brutally ended, and the country lost possibilities.
Like his brother, President John F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he would be killed, and America would lose great potential for change and decency. I was a young teenager when this happened, and I remember feeling a terrible sense of loss and grief. As I grew older, I would realize just what the country lost.
I end with a quotation from his campaign, which was based on the earlier quotation from George Bernard Shaw. In his speech at the University of Kansas
March 18, 1968 RFK said:
Senator Ted Kennedy spoke of his brother at his funeral and said,
I hope we, as a nation, can remember Robert F. Kennedy’s sense of optimism and justice and that we move towards a just and inclusive society. We must think of what might be.
Works Cited
“Edward M. Kennedy Address at the Public Memorial Service for Robert F. Kennedy.”
American Rhetoric Top 100 Speeches. Online. http://www.americanrhetoric.com
/speeches/ekennedytributetorfk.html.
“Robert F. Kennedy Speeches Remarks at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968.” John
F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Online. https://www.jfklibrary.org
/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/RFK-Speeches/Remarks-of-Robert-
F-Kennedy-at-the-University-of-Kansas-March-18-1968.aspx.
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