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       KENNEDY'S SPEECH
   DIR By: TPE
       Date: January 19, 2016, 11:02 am
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       Ladies and Gentlemen,
       I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this
       evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of
       you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very
       sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our
       fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world;
       and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed
       tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
       Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice
       between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that
       effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the
       United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we
       are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who
       are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there
       were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with
       bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
       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. […]
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