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Jason B. Munster ’07 said that the cube encouraged conversation at his dinner table, spurring a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr., 8th grade sports coaches, and other outstanding leaders in the lives of the students...
...evening of april 4, 1968, about an hour after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis. Nearly 40 years later, Kennedy's words stand as an example of the substance and music of politics in its grandest form and highest purpose-to heal, to educate, to lead. Sadly, his speech also marked the end of an era: the last moments before American public life was overwhelmed by marketing professionals, consultants and pollsters who, with the flaccid acquiescence of the politicians, have robbed...
...gentlemen," he began, rather formally, respectfully. "I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening because I have some very sad news ..." His voice caught, and he turned it into a slight cough, a throat clearing, "and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee...
...There were screams, wailing-just the rawest, most visceral sounds of pain that human voices can summon. As the screams died, Kennedy resumed, slowly, pausing frequently, measuring his words: "Martin Luther King ... dedicated his life ... to love ... and to justice between fellow human beings, and he died in the cause of that effort." There was near total silence now. One senses, listening to the tape years later, the audience's trust in the man on the podium, a man who didn't merely feel the crowd's pain but shared it. And Kennedy reciprocated: he laid himself bare for them...
...protest is a reciprocation of the company’s good will. By not marching, Harris said that workers were telling their company that “if you reach out, so will we.” SLAM concluded the protest by reading an excerpt from the speech Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the day before his April 4, 1968, death. —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...