Question

According to the text, what does Kennedy fear will be the reaction in the wake of the kings death.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Senator Robert Kennedy learned about Dr. Martin Luther King's death when he was about to speak to an audience made up mostly of African Americans. Kennedy told them about the great leader's death. He feared the crowd would react with violence due to anger and a need for revenge. However, he advised them not to. Kennedy said he could understand their anger, since he had felt the same way when his brother was murdered years earlier. But he claimed that anger and revenge were not what America needed:

"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."

Senator Kennedy was himself shot to death a couple of months later.