“The yippies may nominate a 300-pound pig for president. His program is garbage. After nomination we will eat him and become the candidate. The only answer to an absurd system is absurdity and laughter, followed by anger, and then absurdity and laughter”
“The murder of RFK left a void. No one came after him who could speak simultaneously for the unemployed black teenager and the white worker trapped in a dead-end job and feeling misunderstood”
“Kennedy’s face had a kind of sweet acceptance to it, the eyes understanding that it had come to him, the way it had come to so many others before him. The price of the attempt at excellence was death”
Many people, including several Voice writers, were skeptical when Robert F. Kennedy came to New York to run for Senate. But soon everyone warmed up to the future presidential candidate.
