RFK: Collected SpeechesRobert F. Kennedy died from an assassin's bullet on June 6, 1968. Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of that tragedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edwin O. Guthman, a confidant of RFK's, and C. Richard Allen have assembled a moving and eloquent volume of his speeches. Arranged chronologically and woven together with a narrative that places the speeches in global and national as well as personal context - and illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, some never before published - this first collection of its kind serves also as a stirring history of two turbulent American decades. Public interest in the Kennedys has only grown stronger as the years have passed. And RFK's voice is as relevant today as it was when he first spoke out on individual responsibility, personal courage, compassion for those less fortunate, and all of the critical issues of his time - and ours. |
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... ourselves best justice when we measure ourselves against ancient tests , and a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong , and repairs the evils . The only sin is pride . . . . If the government's troops will not or cannot carry ...
... ourselves best justice when we measure ourselves against ancient tests , and a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong , and repairs the evils . The only sin is pride . . . . If the government's troops will not or cannot carry ...
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... ourselves , the danger to the world - all this we would stand , willingly , if it seemed to serve some worthwhile end . But the costs of the war's present course far outweigh anything we can reasonably hope to gain by it , for ourselves ...
... ourselves , the danger to the world - all this we would stand , willingly , if it seemed to serve some worthwhile end . But the costs of the war's present course far outweigh anything we can reasonably hope to gain by it , for ourselves ...
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... ourselves in a land war with her on the continent of Asia . . . . The third great danger is not from an external enemy . It is from ourselves . This is precisely the danger that in seeking universal peace , needlessly fearful of change ...
... ourselves in a land war with her on the continent of Asia . . . . The third great danger is not from an external enemy . It is from ourselves . This is precisely the danger that in seeking universal peace , needlessly fearful of change ...
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RFK: His Words for Our Times Robert F. Kennedy,C. Richard Allen,Edwin O. Guthman Limited preview - 2018 |
RFK: His Words for Our Times Robert F. Kennedy,C. Richard Allen,Edwin O. Guthman No preview available - 2018 |
RFK: His Words for Our Times Robert F. Kennedy,C. Richard Allen,Edwin O. Guthman No preview available - 2019 |
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