A very good story about Bobby Kennedy.

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I arrived at Asmara a month after this happened.

http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/2009/03/11/remembering-bobby-kennedy/
Remembering Bobby Kennedy
Posted by John Coyne on Wednesday, March 11th 2009
The event at the Kennedy Center this week for Senator Ted Kennedy reminded me of the time that Bobby Kennedy came to Ethiopia back in the 60s.

As I have written elsewhere, here is a little known story about Bobby Kennedy and the time he met up with PCVs in Asmara, Eritrea. We go back to the summer of ‘66. Bobby had been to South Africa where he was a huge success with college students, and given his famous “Ripple of Hope Speech” that contains one of the most quoted paragraph in political speech making. The speech was written by Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky and delivered on June 6, 1966 in Cape Town.

The famous paragraph went this way: “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or stikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”


Read to the end to see why we loved Bobby so much.

I might know John Coyne. We weren't allowed to fraternize with peace corp, but we did.