Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great idealists of his time. He dreamt of racial congregation for not just blacks, but for all races.  Robert F. Kennedy took a moment during his campaign to remember Martin Luther King Jr., to remember his life and ideas and to spread them once more to the world. Even though this was a horrible event, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy used it in two good ways.  One way was to benefit his campaign; the other was to keep King’s ideas alive.  His broken up sentence structure early on helps create a suspenseful feeling. “-you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge.” He gives the audience a choice in the beginning to go down a dark road full of hatred or a bright road full of love. When he talks about love he uses longer, more persuasive sentences. “Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.” Kennedy uses some juxtaposition and symbolism to persuade his audience of the American people to believe in King’s ideas.  “What we need in the United States is not division…” Kennedy juxtaposes ‘united’ and ‘division’ to show that we need to support the name of our great nation. If the whites tried to remain segregated from the ‘colored’ people, our nation would no longer be united.  That quote also symbolizes the ideas of Martin Luther King. He wanted out country to be united as a whole and to love and understand each other well. “What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another…” Kennedy used some great words in his speech to carry out the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy used words like “love”, “compassion” and “justice” to represent the ideas.  Martin Luther King was a huge promoter of all these things throughout his entire life.  He was extremely dedicated to the work he did for civil rights. Kennedy used words like “desire”, “effort” and “wisdom” to describe King.  He worked selflessly at this for years and never even got to see his dream come true because he was assassinated. It was all worth it to him either way because his got his message and his ideas out. Kennedy really connected to his audience with this speech. He picked very good issues to discuss with all eyes on him since he was talking about the recently assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.  Love and peace to all people were King’s overall ideas and Kennedy addressed them very well.