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92. I've never heard Paul Ryan say anything poetic or uplifting, but your comment made me think about

Bobby Kennedy when he was in Indianapolis shortly after Martin Luther King was murdered, and when standing on the back of a flatbed truck, how he quoted the words of the great poet Aeschylus to calm the crowd. I would also comment that Kennedy's own words about his own brother's murder, had a poetic quality.

He said:

"For those of you who are black and are tempted to ... be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling," he said. "I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man."

He went on to say, "My favorite poem, my — my favorite poet is Aeschylus," "and he once wrote:

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.

It has been written that while other American cities rioted and burned after King was killed, there was no violence in Indianapolis.

The poem by Aeschylus is on my fridge, and I always get goose bumpy when I read it.