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"53 Robert F. Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 November 1925. Died: 6 June 1968 | Politician | Lawyer |

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Better Life Thing Purpose
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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.

Acts Bend Change Each
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Any Change City Claim
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Freedom Hands Law Loser
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Achieve Dare Ever Fail
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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Again Back Being Go
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Against Everything People Time
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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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.

Challenging Difficult Filled Lived
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gain Guide Live Living
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Believe Evil I Believe I Believe That
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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.

Dedicate Gentle Greeks Let Us
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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?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Change Enemies Motivator Nice
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Children Come Down Far
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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.

Activity Arena Bodies Clearly
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Does Ends Free Life
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

America Answer Diversity Freedom
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Criminal Deserves Enforcement
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Any Circumstances Foreseeable Friends
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

All My Life Been Government Involved
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Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Ask Dream I Dream Men
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If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Anyway Basic Chance Changes
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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.

Decisions Freedom Freedom Of Speech Goes
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Apply Boston Even Father
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Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Beings Between Cause Dedicated
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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.

About Community Democratic Democratic Society
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When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Attempt Businessmen Companies Competition
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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Cannot Chaos Civilization Creates
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The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

Easiest Grant Right Rights
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Adult Aspirations Attitudes Becomes
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Accept Any Been Career
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In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

Activities Before Cases Come
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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.

Best Cases Courts Federal
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I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

Am Approach Best Deeply
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I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

Always Baseball Come Emphasized
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I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.

Am Any Ashamed Beaten
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We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Any Civil Civil Rights Continue
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In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.

Analysis Every Last Lawyer
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The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Between Communism Democracy Difference
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From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

Been Dedicated First Government
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I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

Against Almost Berlin Beyond
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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Any Change Economic Forces Face
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The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

American American People Better Better Way
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Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Because Been Emphasis Experience
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In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

Action Affect Around Attitude
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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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.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Freedom Makes Possible Progress
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Robert F. Kennedy Quotes & Sayings