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Selected quotes from Edward Kennedy
AFP - Thursday, August 27
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - With the death announced Wednesday of Senator Edward Kennedy, Washington lost one of its most gifted orators. Here are excerpts from some of the speeches he gave during a political career that spanned nearly half a century.
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Announcing his entry into politics with a bid to win the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by his brother, John F. Kennedy, when he became president:
"I make this decision in full knowledge of the obstacles I will face, the charges that will be made. Massachusetts must have a Democratic voice in the councils of the Senate -- a voice that will be heard." March 14, 1961 (The New York Times)
A televised address to the people of Massachusetts after the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident:
"It has been written a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles, and dangers, and pressures, and that is the basis of human morality.
"Whatever may be the sacrifices he faces, if he follows his conscience -- the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow man -- each man must decide for himself the course he will follow.
"The stories of the past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul." July 25, 1969
On the assassination of his brother Robert F. Kennedy, who was campaigning for the presidency:
"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply 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?'" June 8, 1968
Speaking at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts following Robert Kennedy's killing:
"There is no safety in hiding. Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, excellence and courage that distinguished their lives." August 1968 (The New York Times)
Addressing the Democratic National Convention in New York on August 12, 1980, after conceding defeat in his bid for the party's presidential nomination.
"Well, things worked out a little different from the way I thought, but let me tell you, I still love New York..."
"And someday, long after this convention, long after the signs come down and the crowds stop cheering and the bands stop playing, may it be said of our campaign that we kept the faith. May it be said of our party in 1980 that we found our faith again...
"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Opposing then-president Ronald Reagan's nomination of conservative jurist Robert Bork to the Supreme Court:
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens." June 23, 1987
On the 1999 death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn in a plane crash:
"Once, when they asked John what he would do if he went into politics and was elected president, he said: 'I guess the first thing is call up Uncle Teddy and gloat.' I loved that. It was so like his father.
"We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years.
"We who have loved him from the day he was born, and watched the remarkable man he became, now bid him farewell." July 23, 1999
Endorsing then-senator Barack Obama for the presidency:
"Let there be no doubt: We are all committed to seeing a Democratic President in 2008.
"But I believe there is one candidate who has extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history.
"He understands what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the 'fierce urgency of now.'
"He will be a president who refuses to be trapped in the patterns of the past. He is a leader who sees the world clearly without being cynical. He is a fighter who cares passionately about the causes he believes in, without demonizing those who hold a different view.
"He is tough-minded, but he also has an uncommon capacity to appeal to 'the better angels of our nature.'
"I am proud to stand here today and offer my help, my voice, my energy and my commitment to make Barack Obama the next president of the United States." January 28, 2008
At the Democratic National Convention that picked Obama as the party's presidential candidate:
"There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, we will reach our destination -- not merely victory for our party but renewal for our nation.
"And this November, the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans, so with Barack Obama and for you and for me, our country will be committed to his cause. The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on." August 28, 2008
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This August 7, 1968 file photo shows US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy at Zurich Airport in Switzerland. US Senator Ted Kennedy, a lion of the American left and the last of the brothers who ruled US politics for years, has died of brain cancer, his family said. He was 77.
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