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Flink Seminar: Robert F. Kennedy (RFK)

Day of Affirmation Speech, June 6th, 1966

Robert F. Kennedy
University of Cape Town, South Africa
N.U.S.A.S. "Day of Affirmation" Speech, June 6th, 1966 

The PDF version of the speech is posted on the RFK in the Land of Apartheid website. The Ripple of Hope paragraph begins with the line, "Give me a place to stand."

An audio version of the speech is posted on the American Rhetoric Online Speech Ban website. 

Analysis

Memmott, M. (2013, June 30). Looking back: RFK's Ripple of Hope speech in South Africa. National Public Radio. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/30/197342656/looking-back-rfks-ripple-of-hope-speech-in-south-africa

Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. (2014). Kennedy speaks to us all today. Retrieved from http://rfkcenter.org/kennedy-speaks-to-us-all-today

Wilson Center. (2010, December 9). RFK in the land of apartheid: A Ripple of Hope. Retrieved from http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/irfk-the-land-apartheid-ripple-hopei