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Robert Kennedy
American Politician
Born: Nov 20, 1925
Died: Jun 6, 1968
Freedom Law Life Man Men World
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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. Robert Kennedy
Men Dream See Some Some Men Never Were Ask Why Why Not Things
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert Kennedy
Hope Time Man Injustice Ripple Oppression Walls Build Energy Down Other Others Strikes Those Out Daring Ripples Crossing He Ideal Lot Up Improve Sends Current Tiny Different Centers Against Mightiest Forth Sweep Stands Each Each Time Acts Million Resistance
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. Robert Kennedy
Justice Constitution Women Law Men Men And Women Society Our Constitute Lawyers Majesty Protected Protector Glory Courts Nor Officers Just Themselves Created Who
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. Robert Kennedy
Future Time History People Fear Past Every Every Time Security Fact Never Invoke Tracks Comfortable Mistrust Existed Stop In Fact Want Which Land Who Present
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people. Robert Kennedy
People Madness Cause Coward Hero Civil Riots Only Martyr Voice Uncontrollable Uncontrolled Wrongs Bullet Been Accomplished Mob Created Disorders Assassin Ever Violence
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. Robert Kennedy
Dangerous Cause Evil Extreme Say Extremists Intolerant Objectionable About Opponents They Say
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? Robert Kennedy
God Black White Our Our Lives Response All Our Lives He Suppose Look Go Up Inferior What If Heaven Then Lives Treated
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Robert Kennedy
Time People Everything Against
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. Robert Kennedy
Change Progress Enemies Word Nice Motivator
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. Robert Kennedy
Life History Struggle People Better Independence Revolution Our Nurtured Way States Those Born Seek Throughout Better Way Supported American American People Who United United States
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. Robert Kennedy
Work History Change Generation Events Will Few Bend This Generation Those Total Small Written Greatness Itself The History Of Us Each Acts Portion
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. Robert Kennedy
Man Rights Dignity World Men Living Must Civil Civil Rights Rising Without Prove Continue Provide Loss Any Human Human Dignity Standard
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. Robert Kennedy
Democracy Rights Responsibilities Citizenship Only Remind Us Elections
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. Robert Kennedy
Wisdom Live Living Tool Guide Tragedy Gain Which
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. Robert Kennedy
Law Community Every Society Criminal Kind Law Enforcement Insists True Equally Gets Enforcement Deserves
The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right. Robert Kennedy
Justice Vote Rights Problem Voting Citizen Responsibility Other Significant Citizenship Civil Civil Rights Most Protect Make Department Department Of Justice Each Fundamental Acts Right
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. Robert Kennedy
Generation World Made Own Every Those Never Come Course Makes Becomes Does Due Accounting Children After Automatically Who Each Each Generation
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. Robert Kennedy
Freedom Man Diversity Heritage Our Intolerant Religious Religious Freedom Inspired Answer Ultimately Very America Which
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. Robert Kennedy
Rights Word Honor Citizen Seen Responsibilities Citizenship More Put Emphasis Since Days Greece Than Often Rome Title
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. Robert Kennedy
Government Freedom Men Power Freedom Of Speech Shape Share Heard Hand Hand-In-Hand Goes Which Decisions Lives Speech
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. Robert Kennedy
Life Freedom History Justice Struggle Humanity Tyranny Important Nothing Pain Has-Been Worthwhile Easy Temptation Without Continuing Been Very Achieved The History Of Against Little Serious Ever
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. Robert Kennedy
Government Corruption Crime Country Believe Valid District District Attorney Investigative Attorney Conditions Very Role Reporters Reports Substitute Newspaper Your Communities Organized Helpful Whole
Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union. Robert Kennedy
Good Dignity Better Example Unions Aims Membership Worthy Determined Abroad Only Individual Leaders Freely Democratic Concern Policies Emulation Method Than Themselves Organizations Workings Union Large Chosen
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Robert Kennedy
Evil Long Poverty Believe Plenty
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. Robert Kennedy
Freedom People Defense Berlin Seeking Comprehension Prevent Almost Beyond Understand Built Wall Against Chinese
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price. Robert Kennedy
Frustration Poverty Pay Our Kind Must Citizens Price Develop Up Expect Children Large Grow Large Number Grow Up Deserve Number
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