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 for
whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual
rights that are the heart of our democracy….-- Ted Kennedy, 1987 hearing for Robert Bork (who was not confirmed)
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According to the Biography web site, Ted Kennedy (1932 - 2009) was the youngest brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. He was elected to the Senate when he was 30, and continued to work in
Congress throughout his life. Though marked by scandal, Kennedy was
viewed as an icon of political progressivism and liberal thought by the
time of his death, on August 25, 2009.
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