Say a prayer for our country and for our people

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 or lawlessness; 

but 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 they be black. . . .

We can do well in this country. 

We will have difficult times; 

we've had difficult times in the past; 

we will have difficult times in the future. 

It is not the end of violence; 

it is not the end of lawlessness; 

it is not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and 

the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, 

want to improve the quality of our life, 

and want justice for all human beings who abide in our land.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: 

to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Let us dedicate ourselves to that, 

and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

           Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968
           After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.