A Quote by Robert Francis Kennedy on despair, god, grace, heart, pain, sleep, and wisdom

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Aeschylus wrote: 'In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'

Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)

Source: an extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr., evening of April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis

Contributed by: Zaady