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Introduction
Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. He was born into a wealthy family. They were very big in politics. Joseph and Rose Kennedy had 9 different kids, one of them was the great John Fitzgerald Kennedy, our 35th president. Robert was a United States Senator. He was assassinated at the age of 42 in the ballroom of a hotel.
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Interesting Facts
Robert F. Kennedy was a Senator in the House of Representatives and when his brother became president, he became the Attorney General is John's cabinet. He spent his college career at Harvard, but in the middle of it, he was drafted into WWII. He led American forces against Germany, Italy and Japan. His older brother, Joseph, died in that war. In 1946, he returned to Harvard where he played football. He attended University of Virginia Law School where he earned his law degree. He met his future wife, Ethel Skakel, there. He wished to run in the presidential election of 1968, but he was assassinated before he could. His political power mostly came from the young African-American people in the U.S. He fought very hard for their rights. The man who assassinated him never revealed why he did it. His name was Sirhan Sirhan and he was born in Palestine. There are many conspiracy theories out there, like blaming brain-washing as the motive of the murder, but nothing was ever proven.
These are a few quotes that he said in some of his most famous speeches:
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
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
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
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
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
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
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Robert Kennedy
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
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
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy
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Video
Click here for a video of Bobby Kennedy
Click here for another video (pictures only)
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Other links
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~dlewis/crime.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkennedyR.htm
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=k000114
http://www.rfkcenter.org/
http://bobby-kennedy.com/rfkassassination.htm
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Bibliography
Wasniewski, Matthew. Kennedy, Robert Francis. 2000. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=k000114
Answers Corporation. Robert Kennedy. 2011. http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy
Advameg Corp. Robert Kennedy Biography. 2011. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Jo-Ki/Kennedy-Robert.html
BrainyQuotes. Robert Kennedy Quotations. 2001. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertkenn121273.html
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John Arnold. 8th grade St. Gabriel School. Last updated: March 30th, 2011