Robert F. Kennedy - Day of Affirmation Speech [A Tiny Ripple of Hope]
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- The Day of Affirmation speech was a speech given by Senator Robert F. Kennedy to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966. In the speech Kennedy talked about individual liberty, apartheid, and the need for civil rights in the United States at a time when the American civil rights movement was ongoing.
"Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."
- Robert F. Kennedy
-George Bernard Shaw***
Love it RIP BOBBY❤
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly, will achieve greatly"
This was a great man...
arjanv45 Agreed! Easily the best among his fellow countrymen then and since!
Words like that are why the Kennedys are remembered.
Watched his ambassador hotel speech and aftermath today... I'm shaken
YayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyGREAT. GENTLEMAN 4 sure
We would have lived in a different world today had the Robert Kennedy had
Chance to become President after John F. Kennedy although great … so sad~😢❤
His speech to the black crowd from the back of a flatbed truck announcing the death of Martin Luther King Jnr showed his real courage. He'd have been a great President.
I hate guns.
TheYellowTulips You hate assassins. The tool is not any kind of evil. Blame and credit people with evil and good.
Remote Viewer 1 Don't tell him what he hates. You can hate the tool just as much as the man. Modern guns have made assassinations easy and common, without them, these great men would not have been lost, and the earth would be a better place for it.
True enough that he CAN hate the tool, but it is very unlikely that he does. Sane people do not hate tools, particularly when they are tools for good as well as bad, but if you look at what Remote Viewer 1 wrote, he did not even say that TheYellowTulips did not hate the tool.
Will Miller The best this country would have ever seen next to Lincoln! Easily!!
The greatest speech of my greatest hero. "What is a hero?" This is a hero. “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
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pleonic So beautiful and so profound. Truly timeless words!
Straight up poetry. I had to honor his existence by memorizing the entire speech, verbatim.
@@justanotherguy469 I get tears in my eyes when I hear it.
@@pleonic Me too. Especially at " Those of us who loved him and will take him to his rest today".
When I was a kid, my dad told me “Jack was the polished star; Bobby was the truly great man.” I seldom agree with my father, but he nailed it there.
This man, AMERICAS LOST PRESIDENT was a treasure for not just America but for the world. The sudden and tragic loss of MLK, during a speech by RFK proved the power of speech this man had as Indianapolis had no riots, like other US cities.
Compassion, humanity, love for all people, and the persistence of none other.
God Bless you , Bobby.
God Bless your son in his endeavor to finish what you started.
Love listening to an intelligent speaker….intelligent and kind politician
It was the responsibility of Bobby Kennedy to negotiate peace with the USSR in 1962 at the height of The Cuban Missile Crisis.
Had he got that wrong we wouldn't be here now. He had to get it right and he did.
The closest this planet has ever come to complete annihilation, and Kennedy's steadiness secured the future for us all.
God rest Robert Francis Kennedy, he made the difference.
Thank u thats what I learnt he made a difference in this world. I imagine what if he lived and his values spread like a fire around the world that's real security.
We wouldn't be here if not for USSR Naval Officer Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov.
Google that name. He deserved 20 Nobel Peace Prizes. The world got lucky in Oct-62, because of him.
My heart hurts. What could have been if Bobby had lived :( His words STILL ring true, we live in extremely divisive times today. I hope we can work on unity and love rather than divisiveness and hatred
One thing about the presidency. A candidate gets elected on promises but events intervene that absorbs time better spent on fulfilling those promises. LBJ knew that Vietnam would undo his Great Society. Lincoln wanted nothing more than to expand the American System over the continent, Obama wanted to focus on health care, not an economy burning to the ground. Even Hoover had great plans, but.... Bobby would have had a hell of a time just extricating from Vietnam.
jelly bean “...if he had lived...” he was murdered by an mk ultra CIA mafia conspiracy. Get real. They don’t allow people like this to live. Just look at the autopsy report. Three concise shots upward and to the left from behind. His body guard probably had his gun locked n loaded in his coat pocket and shot upwards to kill him
Sayyyyy that… miss you future president RFK❤
@@geoffblankenmeyer7081
RFK had it all, intelligence,
desire for peace, love of his fellow man, dogged desire to end war and poverty, eloquent speech, character and charisma.
He may have been our greatest President since Lincoln, if not for his untimely death. God Bless you Bobby, and I know your smiling down on Bob Jr., in his endeavor to finish what you started.
Yes, what prompoted me to relisten to RFK's speech in Africa was another insane, inane pronouncement from his son, RFK, Jr. I also relistened to Bobby speaking from the back of that truck on the night MLK, Jr. died.
Very powerful coming to realize Bobby Kenedy wa one was one of the most incredible orators, and that he spoke in my home country against Apartheid before it was popular to do so.
The biggest and greatest thing about the Kennedys , is that they were fortunate to be born into wealth, and yet felt a responsibility to help those who weren’t. I was at a rally where Carolyn Kennedy spoke, she is the most Gracious woman I know.
That was an absolutely beautiful speech! I think there was something special about John and Robert Kennedy.
+Lee kaberlein www.cs.toronto.edu/~themis/ewords/zolotas.html
They were Irish.
@@timmyhemphill5374 American*
For all his problems, Teddy was special, as well. What a family
Their father Joe, gave them their drive and his wealth opened many doors for the Kennedys, but it was their Mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who gave them their character and their aspirations.
“Moral courage is a rarer commodity, than bravery in battle, or great intelligence. It is the one essential, vital quality, for those who seek to change the world, which yields most painfully to change.”
Would any of the currewbt cast f characters about to ru(i)n the government even get what Bobby was, and did,
There is so much Depth in this speech, he was able to say through words at that time, his ability to understand & articulation about complex issues was. So unique,
The most important speech I have ever had the privilege to have heard
Everyone only pays attention to John F. Kennedy, they always overlook Bobby, who is in my mind, the greatest American of the 20th Century.
going a little too far. but I think he would have been a great president. I always thought if that had happened, we wouldn't see what is going on today.
Blazius Nimrichter purposefully done by the public school system. It gives people a false sense of intelligence
Blazius Nimrichter and it’s amazing how RFK continued on after his brother was murdered.
I agree his lost is the greatest loss of all the potential reckoning of what it truly means to be what it means to be an American citizen. I am humble by the delinquents in which he is able to Express himself
I hate the way technology resides what i want to say. In short I believe that Robert Kennedy is one of the most important thinkers to ever share his wisdom with humanity
Almost all Black South Africans never had this speech, during the time . We didn't know we had a powerful friend
Full circle moment ❤
Amazing speech. One of the best speeches ive heard
Yessssssssssssss SIR
These are men's who worked so hard to preach liberties and freedom of man in those dark times of man's life and sadly enough the world seems like is going back were we come from ,this speech and it's holy statement s should be enshrined in the mind of every man
One of the last great leaders this country ever saw.
That's exactly why they killed him.
Don't over look yourself. Now more than ever.
Not "one of" but the last. How long must we wait?
Again, I must disagree. He WAS the last great leader in this country. He was the last leader to admit his mistakes and show his humanity to the American people. He was the greatest of the US potential, an existential arc of greatness. Like Kerouac said, he was a person who burned bright in the sky, until we all see the center light pop and go Ah....taken way too soon for all of us.
Absolutely Brilliant. And still relevant today.
More REVERENT TODAYYYYYYYYYYYY 4 sure❤
best speech in history? I listen often, it is so calming yet invigorating.
+rodney maxwell ...i agree...one of the best of the family for sure.......take a look at this if you want a real strange speech.........www.cs.toronto.edu/~themis/ewords/zolotas.html
Plus very moving. Why did we fail him?
The greatest speech given to humanity.
Sadly, despairingly,, I acknowledge the heartbreaking truth of what you say~
It's not without its dated parts, but I'm not sure what great speech or writing is
I believe that this speech is the most important summation of the responsibility of all people in this world. That it incapacitate the the values that are ingrained in our constitution. I believe that the challenges put forth in this speech are the most important responsibility of all people in this country and the world. Achieving these goals are the work of God .that it is our to strive for as children God on this earth if we want to deserve a place that we are already guaranteed by his love
I believe you should learn to read before you write
So Profound and of Great importance for today! Excellent.
The world still weeps for Bobby. ♥️
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS WE SURE DO!!!!😢
The courage of this soul knew no bounds. RIP Bobby, 6th June 2021 💐🙏💐
a tremendous speech from a courageous man.
I just love this speech. It says it all.
Amen
That is something I want to be part of in a real way and I appreciate all individuals who have similar goals. Equality. Education. Longer lives. Health. Fewer social problems.
Less crime. More dreams coming true. More emphasis on hard work and dedication.
People trying things they wouldn't normally try. Being themselves. Staying strange and encouraging tolerance of people who are different. Equal access.
“We must recognize the full human equality, of all of our people, before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous, although it is. Not because the laws of God command it, although they do. Not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason, that it is the right thing to do.”
JESUS 🙏🏿
A great man, my political mentor.
robert f kennedy is a good humane.His approach is sincere and honest in the right direction and it is very apt for todays world.
Same sentiments
I hope 🤞 I can teach this critical important Robert F Kennedy enlightening speech until the end of June 2021. I keep the excerpt in my purse to inspire me Always..Peace ☮️🇺🇸🙏🌅
God Bless you Bobby!I 'm so sorry that you passed so young! I will always remember you! I 'm named my son after you and your brother ,President John F..Kennedy.His name is Kyle Kennedy Albritton and I call him Kyle!
Thank you for honoring Jack and Bobby that way.
This is the greatest speech that has ever been made by any man.
Robert F. Kennedy was a rare human.
The world was, is, blessed to have had him.
Another great and visionary man murdered well before his time; I shook his hand at the Portland, ME airport.
I want to shake your hand just to get a feel of RFK
A courageous man . If he is up in Heaven, he is surely looking down on his son Robert jr, proud of him.
3:48 - "we stand here in the name of freedom"
Such a loss even after all this time
A great man.
Something you just wrote for me! Thank you so much Mr. G!
We have passed laws prohibiting discrimination in education, in employment, in housing; but these laws alone cannot overcome the heritage of centuries - of broken families and stunted children, and poverty and degradation and pain.
So the road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside all of us. We are committed to peaceful and non-violent change and that is important for all to understand - though change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.
Well life wasn’t meant to be easy
Bobby, as well as JFK, gave intelligent speeches with big ideas that didn't talk down to the audience. I'm afraid to think this speech wouldn't play well in today's environment...
True, RFK jr has similar style , so was JFK jr , must be genetic 😊
One day I plan to run for office. I find myself related more to Bobby the more I learn about him. If there were a poor, Southern Kennedy lol.
I think Lowenstein was a far more gifted speech writer than Sorenson
His words still ring true in 2020
I still remember his distinct style of speech. God Bless our Lost President.
And 2024...
Quote by ARTHUR SCHLESINGER ~ "John Kennedy was a realist disguised as a romantic, Robert Kennedy was a romantic disguised as a realist."
Real and good people get assinated.
True , even the man who wrote this speech ,Allard Lowenstein, was gunned down in his office.
THE last great leader any nation ever will see.
We are now left only with politicians; the breed of leaders and philosophers don't come anymore.
Maybe not, his son is following in his father's footsteps. It just took him awhile to come to terms with the assassination of his uncle and father.
God Bless JFK, RFK AND JR.
and May God Protect RFK JR. in his presidential bid.
How the American culture has changed to worse...hard to find genuine goodness like this anymore
A rhapsody of the most intense brilliancy.
CJ O'Murphy ...RFK? Or his speech writer? He certainly knows where to "pause" for the "unexpected" applause.
He speaks of his father's noticing of signs stating: "No Irish Need Apply."
RFK failed to mention the "successes" of the Irish Mobs....the Illegal Bootlegging, Joe, Sr....side by side with violent mobsters, Mafioso, and two-bit hustlers. Joe, Sr. making illegal bucks dealing in, sometimes, deadly hooch. Joe, Sr. making a Kennedy Dynasty just as the Gambinos, the Colombos, the Genevieves, the individuals such as Capone, Luciano, Anastasia, Ben Bugsy Siegel, etal., all did...which included Illegal Bootlegging.
Yes, Dirty Money built the Kennedy's Camelot and vast wealth. Built Kennedy politicians who still exist today. Built Kennedy Opportunists in business, politics, voter fraud (Joe, Sr. yet again!), money, WOMEN/ SHARING, narcotics abuse, arrogance, hypocrisy, narcissism, bullying, WOMANIZING, and so much more. People STILL refuse historical facts. The FACTS only count if you're a Trump or a Clinton. Funny how that works... isn't it?
I'm sure Donald Trump can do better. For the record RFK wrote every word of this speech even the decision to add his brother's remarks from his inaugural.
@@rickkartisable Don't mention the dirty money DT's father gave him, or the Nixon Watergate "thing" or the Bush family connections to the CIA--it's easier to attack a father then the men who control the USA! And for Rickie above--President Bush's father's bank was very helpful in funding Hitler rise to power. Dirty money helped kill 6 million Jews. Dirty money--you think of that when you open your dirty, right wing yep!
Do you really think that the DT orange traitor can talk? I remember him saying that we started the American revolution because (are you ready for this one) the English were taking over our airports!OMG--he must have been snorting right before that speech--what a LOSER!!!
That’s not true. Allard Lowenstein wrote the bulk of this .
Awesome speech
The greatest challenge to any politician is to know when the application of politics for a given problem is necessary or even relevant! Unfortunately, politics and government have not and cannot solve the basic problems of human nature and struggles!
How could anyone in the public eye, speaking as this man did, RFK ...who layed his soul bare to the world...how was he ever going to make it out alive?
Great speech.
Great man❤
Who is watching this in 2024. After KKKomander in chief Drumf won😢
no one talks like this anymore
Liza B Because no one feels like this anymore: the love he had in his heart was true and genuine and utterly beautiful and compassionate beyond any other of his time or since!
Robert Caskie What do you mean? Of course I try to feel and love and have compassionate and kindness, but I'm talking about our society in general today. Many of these new generations, for which I am a member of, only care about superficiality, fame, fortune, greed and will do anything to get it without any consideration of the feeling of others or what is ethical or not. And it's messed up and frankly disgusting and I try to rise above it, sometimes it's hard and the temptation is there but I try not to get sucked into that immoral black hole. I try to strive like Robert Kennedy did, he's my idol and inspiration and I think if more people thought and felt like him we would have a much greater world.
Liza B not on TV. But there are comedians and others who speak out. Like Mel Gibson for one. Why do you think the media smeared him? Look at Vermin Supreme for president. Check him out
With all due respect, I think President Barack Obama speaks almost as eloquently as anyone ever has.
Lol have you fools heard of speech writers? Allard Lowenstein wrote most of this . He was far far more brilliant than Kennedy.
Thank you ❤
America was very complicit in the continuation of apartheid in South Africa while this is a good speech it Hass to be known by many in the crowd in by the man given the speech actions taken by the US perpetuated the very subject they’re speaking out
What
It appears that the gift of common sence is aperrent in this family and the ability to put that common sense into words that all understand.This speach really does show that there are people who,s point of view are the same as every man, that wish for peace and freedom, the very thing we see under huge attack in present days.
Free speach is the begining of freedom, without it there are those who suffer at the hands of others and are unable to let others know.
If mankind is acraid of nothing else, let him be afraid to allow others to dominate his ability to voice his ability to change forbthe better all those places that we see today so hell bent on removing the freedom of free speech.
From JFK, RFK, MLK, to Trump......may God help us.
Trump was trying to do what got JFK murdered.
Just another guy...more like just another trump supporter 🥴
@@trisha9494 No, just someone who votes with his brain and not his emotions. Perhaps you can tell me how currency is created.
@@justanotherguy469 justanothertroll
@@jeffgilman1811 Instead of being another emotional "liberal", why not explain your position and say something educated, instead of calling people, whom you do not agree with, names?
Perhaps you are deficient in terms of writing.
I dare you to write something intelligent!
Bobby❤
26:43
27:17
"If Athens shall appear great to you," said Pericles, "consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty."
The chancellor of UCT he refers to as having the spirit of youth, Albert van der Sandt Centlivres, was 79 years old, and three months from his death, at the time of this speech.
Only noble Souls, because they are committed to their Source, and their own essence, dream dreams that have never been dreamed before, and realize them, in the time of dream fulfillment. Because all dreams come true, because every dream is a life project. 🙌🙏👏👏💝💐🇺🇸🌟🌍🌏🌎
Well Bobby. It hasn't worked out. Big money has steam rolled over this planet since your death. More wars then ever goverment has intered into all kinds crimes that you could never imagine. Its just human growth the population at your time did not know what you where up agianst. They should rename the earth to tragic planet. Your videos live on thats the good news. Body of work left behinde. Lets hope that leaders of your kind can make a differance once agian. God Bless to all.
hopefully his son, Kennedy24💗!
His son has his and his uncles values and policy's.
He us America's last hope.
RFK JR. IN 24
GOD BLESS JFK, RFK AND JR. KEEP HIM SAFE AND ALLOW HIM TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.
Great narration by past US president.
I guess world should better of today in terms of poverty and material needs creation ...
He would have beat nixon and would have been a good president like his brother rip kennedys
@Angel of Mercy.Well to be fair he had only lost in Oregon right before the California primary in 68, which he went on to win, immediately after on that same night after his victory speech he was tragically taken from us. He definitely could and probably would have won. If only..
Some men are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias George Smollett
What do we do now, America?
Some are wise and some otherwise
Yes.
Great orator yet words without actions are like smoke. Had he lived we would have been able to evaluate both. From that point until now we have moved backwards, the killings, drugs, segregation we have faced still haunt us. The wealth difference, job difference, has been the determinant and greed has been the God of many. Humanity is removed from the thoughts and replaced with selfishness. We have never started the road of equality nor
Respect, a few govern the many. Lies and deceit control because common sense is not practiced. We are taught to seek how to live and buy things we will never own and depreciate as fast as we obtain them. Wake up. 6/29/19
RIP richard goodwin, author of speech
Allard Lowenstein accompanied RFK on that trip to South Africa to help him write that speech, so I’m leaning that way as he was just as articulate as Goodwin and possibly even more so.
I firmly believe the early 60's were the best time for america, to have JFK and RFK, even MLK. What a fucking shame it is to see what we have become
The best that América can offer
This speech was two years to the day before he was killed. Ted read it, in part, as Bobby’s eulogy.
❤❤❤Vote Mr. Rfk jr. 024 with VP Nicole Shanahan For peace justice truth N prosperity
hell no
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USA was a great nation because their leaders were God fearing men.
should have less god fearing as there is no god. But a great speech. You should read the new book about him. The author is Larry Tye. It covers the last 20 years of his life. While he had flaws like other people, he was able to learn and change his views. He would have been a great president.
It is amazing how far the Democratic Party has fallen!
To oppress is to control this away make money he’s brother said it best we all breath the same an we all cherish are children future an WE ARE ALL MORTAL you can’t take with you an the people who hoard this thing called money who think power=glory well you have essentially destroyed it thank you my friend for all well be made rite ultimately in the end leaving in the great state of Alabama YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CANT HIDE
Such a speech we can still repeat. Why?
exactly two years before he died
Jayde Slayde Astute. Also, D-Day anniversary.
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BO..Y JR ALL THE WAY❤🎉
They want people that sell garbage not high ideals.
he wanted to see the realities of situations good or bad or indifferent so he would know how to handle them Americans as a whole usually look the other way distract ourselves ignore it. it's hard to be practical and impractical world
This speech and some of his other great speeches came from the pen of Dick Goodwin, the young speechwriter to LBJ and later to RFK. Goodwin later married the historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin.
I believe The first still should have the ability to speak🤗again🌌
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Heard this on StoryCorps # 533
25:00 The Danger of Futility
27:35 The Danger of Expediency
29:45 The Danger of Timidity
30:45 The Danger of Comfort
Nixon only won because of default
Nahh he won in a landslide.
It’s going down we are yelling TIMBER 🎯💣💥
What if?
I see c our Rage and pro lies in profile in courage
Geronimo😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
RFK began to wonder if the Kennedy family had somehow overreached, dared too greatly -- Evan Thomas, 2000 RFK Bio
In 2024 how this applies to South Africa.
Bobby loved Martin Luther King he was the one that was shot🇺🇸🇺🇸😱
FROM MR BILLY RAY CHESSHER NICKNAMED MR SUPERMAN 3BC1 N FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 🙏🙏🙏😎🤠😇
What a tear jerker ! 😂