“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”

—  Ted Kennedy

Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy (8 June 1968)

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