Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “It is neither our position nor our circumstances that define us”
22 April 2023
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“It is neither our position nor our circumstances that define us, according to the Stoics, but our response to those circumstance; when destiny crushes us, small heroic gestures of courage and service can bring us peace and fulfillment. In applying our shoulder to the stone, we give order to a chaotic universe. Of the many wonderful things my father left me, this philosophical truth was perhaps the most useful. In many ways, it has defined my life, and has allowed me to find serenity and purpose even in the most trying and tragic circumstances.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family (p.287)
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Dover Beach 
Christ is risen! Mr. Kennedy’s observations sound noble and profound, but in everyday life people do not gain peace and fulfillment through acts of courage, but through acts of conformity to the general consensus, no matter how criminal it may turn out to be.
RFK, Jr going scorched earth on the CIA’s culpability for the Covid-Crime Against Humanity
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WbCdGI3TtSrJ/