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Item "Ripple of Hope" Gateway
Created by May Sun
"Ripple of Hope" Gateway
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May Sun created a 6 ft. X 24 ft. stainless steel gateway in Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park, Los Angeles, California at the site of the former Ambassador Hotel. Cut-out in the form of a ripple in the water and text are taken from the Day of Affirmation speech that RFK gave in South Africa in 1966.
It reads as "Few will have the greatness to bend history but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these 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 person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, it 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."
It reads as "Few will have the greatness to bend history but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these 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 person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, it 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."