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Racial Conflicts Of Robert F. Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln

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“The vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together” (Kennedy, 1968). Some of the greatest men in America from all different periods of time have all been faced with the same issue of racial conflicts. Two of these men include Robert F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. During Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency, the United States had a catastrophic internal conflict going on which is also known as the civil war. Through the duration of Robert F. Kennedy’s lifetime, racial discrimination was a significant issue. Racial inequality has always been an issue in the United states causing internal conflicts such as the civil war and the civil rights movement, but still present day we are a divided country thinking one race is superior to another. These two men both gave very influential speeches over the major conflicts going on within their times. Abraham Lincoln delivered his second Inaugural Address in 1865 to give the United States citizens some sort of direction and hope during the civil war. Abraham Lincoln states, “The progress of our arms, upon all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.” (Lincoln, 1865) to give the citizens some sort of comfort and hope for themselves and their loved ones as they fought in this conflict. Abraham Lincoln also makes it clear,

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