For the fortunate among us, there is the temptation of financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education. All of us will ultimately be judged and as the years pass we will surely judge ourselves, on the effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that effort. When he ran for president in the Spring of 1968, RFK captured a part of the American electorate in a way that has yet to be eclipsed.
Visionaries are hard to find in contemporary politics, but they do still exist.
Chances are if you were to ask them the driving force behind their dedication to public service, a great many would credit their altruistic pursuits to the spirit of Robert F. Kennedy. Nevertheless, many of them have chosen to fight for the American values of equal opportunity and economic advancement instead of abandoning the less fortunate and damning them to an isolated, impoverished existence. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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 that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American society.