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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
Lawyer
Military Officer
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.
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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.
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