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Always nice to see a shout-out to the Cape Town speech.
“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 strikes 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 that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance.”
RFK gave that speech to an audience of South African student activists in 1966. Its primary author was the great—and deeply weird—liberal organizer Allard Lowenstein.
