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41 years ago, Ted Kennedy eulogizes his brother Bobby: Video

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August 26, 2009 9:59 am
By Sheila Lennon

41 years ago, June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's Funeral -- Eulogy delivered by Senator Edward Kennedy. (Transcript and audio of the entire speech at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.)

A blurry, moving two minutes: "Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"

The Kennedy brothers, for all their flaws, represented a quality that seems largely missing from today's wealthy: An abiding responsibility towards improving the lives of those who don't share their blessings, a moral and spiritual obligation to use their power to turn compassion into action, to change the world for the better for all.

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