Across US, activists hail their advocate, recall a vast legacy

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Source: Boston Globe

WASHINGTON - Holding hands, their heads bowed in prayer, the several dozen homeless men gathered in the basement of the First Church of Seventh-day Adventists yesterday were the epitome of the disenfranchised and underprivileged that Senator Edward M. Kennedy fought for throughout his career.

They gathered to pay tribute to the late Massachusetts senator, with personal words of thanks, scratching their names into a book of condolences and singing the civil rights hymn “We Shall Overcome.’’

The ceremony was among a series of hastily organized tributes following Kennedy’s death in which the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill, and their advocates bade farewell to a man many considered their biggest champion.

The tributes were also an opportunity for political supporters to highlight their issues and urge greater government attention to them, now that Kennedy’s booming voice will no longer be speaking up for them.

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The passing of Ted Kennedy means the lost of the primer liberal voice of liberalism is the US. Ted Kennedy championed our causes and spoke up aganist unjust wars.

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