Showing posts with label Bobby Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bobby Kennedy. Show all posts

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's Death


Today is the 40th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's death. Hardly seems possible (but I guess that is what all us 50 summats say!). One of those occasions that those of us who were around then will never forget. I got sent this quote from him, which has as much resonance now as it did 42 years ago -


Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.


Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech in Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966.