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1925–1968 United States
Robert Francis Kennedy (20 November 1925 – 6 June 1968), often referred to by his initials RFK or by his nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
United States Activists Anti-communists Lawyers Non-fiction authors Also known as: Bobby Kennedy, Kennedy, Robert, Kennedy, Robert F., Robert Kennedy, RFK
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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.
A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
The United States Government has taken steps to make sure that the constitution of the United States applies to all individuals.
In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.
The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
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.
We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.
Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr (1968)
We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
It is your job, the task of young people in this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
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