"Same sword they knight you they gonna 'good night' you with Shit that's only half if they like you That ain't he even the half what they might do Don't believe me ask Michael See Martin, see Malcolm See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome See Jesus, see Judas See Ceasar, see Brutus See success is like suicide Suicide, it's a suicide If you succeed prepare to be crucified"
So as you, like I, watch another day of people hating on Obama and bringing up dumb unfounded ways of tearing him down just remember this verse and look back and reflect how it rings true.
So anyway, people that know me in real life know I'm a big Robert F. Kennedy fan because he embodied everything that I find morally and politically noble and so from time to time I run across a quote from the man that I jot down and so I'll share a few memorable quotes that I find particularly profound among his many many great words as I've been fairly negative lately and I should mix some hope in here every once in a while.
"What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason. Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded."
Right after his brother John F. Kennedy was taken from us.
"You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept."
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
"In this entire century the Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were. We have won when we pledged to meet the new challenges of each succeeding year. We have triumphed not in spite of controversy, but because of it; not because we avoided problems, but because we faced them. We have won, not because we bent and diluted our principles, but because we stood fast to the ideals which represent the most noble and generous portion of the American spirit."
"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."
"....as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
He gave a speech to the Voice of America all around the world 40 years ago. And despite what was going on in the country, particularly in Alabama, Bobby Kennedy said this: Things are "moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years." This is in 1968, we're now in 2008. "`There's no question about it,' the attorney general said. `In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.' ... Kennedy said that prejudice exists and probably will continue to ... `But we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.
- Robert F. Kennedy, Washington Post May 27, 1968 _______ Update _______
