ABSTRACT
In the stream of history, Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) personally came to realize in the 1960s what some scholars later came to acknowledge about the nature of the social order: "Power may be wielded in numerous ways. Between 1963 and 1968 were five years of astonishing transition, "as a large part of the American public moved from openness and embrace of the federal role as agent of social change to resentful anger and rejection". Both John Fitzgerald Kennedy and RFK had actively started the process of embarking upon a transformative politics that would move the United States, and the world at large, toward the realization of a more inclusive, just, and humane social order. The Kennedy brothers had come to realize the non-sectional nature of the civil rights problem and issues such as black unemployment. RFK then concluded his remarks by noting that America would only earn the world's respect if it practiced at home what it preached abroad.
