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Robert Kennedy

Born: November 20, 1925

Died: June 6, 1968

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

Biography: Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisors during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S.

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Robert Kennedy

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy (1964 edition)

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Robert Kennedy

“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?”

- Robert Kennedy

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Robert Kennedy

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; 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.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: RFK: collected speeches (1993 edition), Viking Pr

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Robert Kennedy

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: Bobby Kennedy off-guard (1968 edition)

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Robert Kennedy

“I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.”

- Robert Kennedy

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Robert Kennedy

“I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.”

- Robert Kennedy

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Robert Kennedy

“If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.”

- Robert Kennedy

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Robert Kennedy

“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: America the beautiful (1969 edition)

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Robert Kennedy

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy (1998 edition), Harcourt

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Robert Kennedy

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”

- Robert Kennedy

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Robert Kennedy

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

- Robert Kennedy

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“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.”

- Robert Kennedy

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“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: The Pursuit of Justice (1964), p. 20

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“The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.”

- Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes: The pursuit of justice (1964 edition)

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