Reflections on Peace through the Movie Bobby


Written on August 19, 2007 – 9:07 am | by shenbrood

Pp0809fractalpeaceposters When I opened the computer earlier tonight I was wondering what to watch and then I see this downloaded movie folder named, “Bobby”. 

Actually I do not know what movie it was then I begin to play it knowing that nothing else was available.  Then as I play it I realize that it was the life story of Robert Kennedy, the brother of John F. Kennedy and began enjoying the film.  At the near end of the film as the night makes me sleepy I witness his assassination and as the event unfolds it was backgrounded by a speech, a speech which touched me.

It was a speech which talks about peace and violence.  It talks about how violence and this world make us lesses than brothers, it talks about how we should see our differences in various ways and finally it says
that if we could only find ways to be more closer to one another then we could see each other more as brothers.

Today, in a world full of violence, hatred and war… I realize that we need more people like Kennedy… more of those kind of people which dream big and bend the rules but … it seems that people like them do not last long.

I would like to quote a message from him which I found in wikepedia and which I would like to share to everyone of us…

“Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation … It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus 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 which can
sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”  Robert F. Kennedy, University of Cape Town, South Africa, N.U.S.A.S. “Day of Affirmation” Speech, June 6, 1966

… and still another which talks about Violence…

“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s
cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason. Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.”

It is about time that we build indeed a culture of peace… a just and sustainable peace.



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