14-05-2014, 02:26 AM
A quote from Robert Kennedy:
Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. [B]I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.[/B]
When RFK was in despair in 1964 over his brother's death, Jacqueline Kennedy recommended he read
Edith Hamilton's THE GREEK WAY. That is where he found the quote from Aeschylus's AGAMEMNON that he revealingly
revised before a mostly African American audience in Indianapolis when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died
and that is carved in stone at RFK's grave in Arlington:
"My favorite poem, my my favorite poet was Aeschylus," Robert Kennedy said, "and he once wrote:
See this about his revision of Aeschylus:
http://morec.com/rfk.htm
Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. [B]I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.[/B]
- In an interview shortly before he was killed, responding to a question by David Frost about how his obituary should read.
When RFK was in despair in 1964 over his brother's death, Jacqueline Kennedy recommended he read
Edith Hamilton's THE GREEK WAY. That is where he found the quote from Aeschylus's AGAMEMNON that he revealingly
revised before a mostly African American audience in Indianapolis when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died
and that is carved in stone at RFK's grave in Arlington:
"My favorite poem, my my favorite poet was Aeschylus," Robert Kennedy said, "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."falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.
See this about his revision of Aeschylus:
http://morec.com/rfk.htm