This past week was a tough one for this country. Political assassination, shouts of revenge, we seem to have lost, or at least misplaced, our way.

It is a time to remember the words of Nelson Mandella that "hope is the greatest weapon in the world when all else seems lost".

Not that long ago, really, on April 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy spoke in Indianapolis to a group of black people in a poor area of the city and told them that Martin Luther King had been shot, and that he had died.

Sen. Kennedy's talk that night, written by him in a car on the way there, helped to calm the city and give them peace. There were no riots there, though there were that same night in over 100 cities.

We have a blueprint for getting better if only we have the will to follow it.