On April 4th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy delivered one of the best speeches of its kind. He speech gave peace to Indianapolis after telling the people some really bad news, Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered by white men the night before. Robert F. Kennedy did one the most difficult task, to avoid revenge and riots from happening in Indianapolis, and he succeeded. His speech was delivered ethically to white and black people. His speech was the kind of public dialogue our book defines as an "ethical and civil exchange of ideas and opinions among communities about topics that affect the public”, (Griffin). He showed concern and care for everybody in the audience, by addressing white and black people without disrespecting them, in other words …show more content…
I had a member of my family killed. But he was killed by a white man. (Kennedy) If Robert F. Kennedy would have been a discriminative person, he wouldn’t have taken the time to honor Martin Luther King Jr., his speech. He wouldn’t have encourage the audience to work together for a United States with less polarization and to feel compassion toward one another. His tone of voice was so touching and filled with love, you could tell he felt sad about the tragedy, it was obvious his sympathy was sincere. Overall Robert F. Kennedy general purpose was to persuade, most importantly, to motivate the audience "to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world” (Kennedy). In other words to keep calm through this difficult moment in life. Even though his thesis statement was not directly stated in the speech, but after reading and hearing his speech I concluded that his main idea in his speech was to encourage people to understand and to comprehend the feelings of each other with love and compassion, instead of recurring to violence and anger towards each