Opinion: The Speech RFK Jr. Should Deliver to be Worthy of His Name
Two months before his murder, Robert F. Kennedy delivered brief remarks in Phoenix, Arizona, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president.
“If there is one overriding reality in this country, it is that we must resist any erosion of a sense of national decency,” the March 30, 1968, speech began.
“Make no mistake: Decency is at the heart of the matter—and at the heart of this campaign. Poverty is indecent. Illiteracy is indecent.”