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.
Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that
what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to
pass for all the world.
As he said many times, in many parts of this
nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: "Some men see
things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say
why not
Senator Edward Kennedy, speaking at the funeral of his brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, June 8th 1968.
Three days earlier, Bobby Kennedy had won another primary race in his bid to run to be President in 1968. Leaving the victory announcement, he was assassinated as he made his way through hotel kitchens.
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