GLENDALE, Ariz. (NewsNation) — U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke in remembrance Sunday at the memorial for slain political activist Charlie Kirk, recalling one of their early talks.

“In one of my first conversations with Charlie in July of 2021, we were talking about the risks that all of us take when we challenge entrenched interests, the physical risk,” said Kennedy. “And he asked me if I was scared of dying, and I said to him, ‘There's a lot worse things than death, and one of those things is if we lost our constitutional rights in this country and that our children were raised as slaves.’”

Kennedy also touched on Kirk’s faith and his belief that people should “strive to live our lives in perfect imitation of Christ.”

“Christ died at 33 years old

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