Robert F. Kennedy

Birthday: 20 November 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Birth Name: Robert Francis Kennedy

Height: 175 cm

Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-68), US politician, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the third son of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy and wife Rose Kennedy. He studied at Harvard and at Virginia University Law School, served at sea (1944-46) in World War II, was admitted to the bar (1951), and served on the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities (1957-59), when he prosecuted several top union leaders. An efficient manager of his brother John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, he was an energetic Attorney General (1961-64), notably in his dealings with civil rights problems. He became senator from New York in 1965. After winning the Californian Democratic presidential primary election, he was shot at a hotel in Los Angeles. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Jordanian-born immigrant, was sentenced to the gas chamber in 1969, but was not executed. Show less «

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

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...Show more »

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? Show less «

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our herita...Show more »

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

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...Show more »

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

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

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man ...Show more »

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. Show less «

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...Show more »

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

I'm tired of chasing people.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...Show more »

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. Show less «

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...Show more »

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. Show less «

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

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...Show more »

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. Show less «

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...Show more »

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. Show less «

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...Show more »

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. Show less «

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

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

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...Show more »

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

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thou...Show more »

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. Show less «

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human a...Show more »

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. Show less «

I've seen despair and hopelessness, and I've seen children who are starving to death in the United S...Show more »

I've seen despair and hopelessness, and I've seen children who are starving to death in the United States. I mean, not 'I read about children who are starving to death in the United States', but I've seen children who are starving to death in the United States. And, as the reports have said, they will never recover mentally after the age of four. Show less «

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times...Show more »

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. Show less «

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

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