Robert F. Kennedy topic

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Robert Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was the United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a US Senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He was one of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's younger brothers, and also one of his most trusted advisers and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also made a significant contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. After the John F.... full article at wikipedia

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Nov 20, 1925

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Brookline

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Ted Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
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Ethel Skakel Kennedy
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Don't get mad, get even.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is 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 injustice.

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

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

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Jun 6, 1968

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office, position, or title	governmental body (if position is part of one)	jurisdiction of office	district represented (if position is district-related)	appointed by (if position is appointed)	from	to
United States Senator	United States Senate	United States	New York		1965	1968
United States Attorney General	United States Department of Justice			John F. Kennedy	1961	1964
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