Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Brookline
- Educated at
- University of Virginia School of LawV-12 Navy College Training ProgramHarvard UniversityHarvard CollegeUniversity of Virginia
- Awards
- 🏆 Ernst Reuter Medal🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Congressional Gold Medal
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Robert Kennedy's Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr"
"The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means."
"First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills — against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence.…"
"For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This …"
"All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor…"
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Timeline
1925
Born
Birth1968
Died
Death
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