Robert Kennedy Quotes About Believe, World, Elections, Challenge, Time

Robert Kennedy Quotes About Believe, World, Elections, Challenge, Time

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Robert Kennedy Quotes:

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

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Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth – but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

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Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades – not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.

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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

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Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

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Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

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Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

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Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.

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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all I can.

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I don’t believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.

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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

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In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

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In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness – of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

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In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.

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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

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It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

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Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

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Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

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No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troubling concern of our society is whether men of different races can sit together at a lunch counter.

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