The Fourth Brother, Ted Kennedy

2009-08-26


Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009




I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses



For me this is a season of hope - new hope for a justice and fair prosperity for the many, and not just for the few - new hope.

And this is the cause of my life - new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American - north, south, east, west, young, old - will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.

- Ted Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention on
August 25, 2008