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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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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.
Robert Kennedy
Justice
Obligations
Law
Responsibility
Living
Earning
Corporation
Citizens
Lawyers
Also
Principles
Go
Continuing
Than
Depart
Uphold
Duties
Tax
Cannot
Which
Far
Special
Specialists
Fundamental
Deeper
Fundamental Principles
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.
Robert Kennedy
Hope
Great
Women
Communism
Opportunities
Men
Men And Women
Ideology
Enormous
Consist
Spies
Weapons
Great Masses
Only
Inspires
Weeks
Deluded
Missiles
Counts
Masses
Terms
Terrorists
False
Decades
Common
Which
Them
Agents
Means
Aggression
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
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.
Robert Kennedy
Needs
Me
Free
Free Press
Community
Society
Press
Tell
About
No-One
Importance
Democratic
Democratic Society
Role
Essential
Newspaper
Play
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy
Politics
Freedom
Law
Men
Own
Take
Loser
Loses
Hands
Whenever
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.
Robert Kennedy
Man
Strong
Country
Feelings
Oppose
Presidency
Run
Must
Strong Feelings
About
Obliged
Propose
Merely
Feel
New
Perilous
Policies
Course
Because
Am
Any
Done
Convinced
We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.
Robert Kennedy
Leadership
People
Protection
Cause
Minority
Believe
States
Recognize
Minorities
Individual
Individual Human
Majority
Make
Policy
Provide
Contributions
Any
Human
Human Beings
Whether
Theory
Beings
United
United States
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.
Robert Kennedy
Education
Health
Age
Old
Poverty
Old Age
Way
Bad
Attack
Causes
Go
Discrimination
Lack
Root
Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Work
Education
Government
Family
Man
People
Rest
Everything
Worthwhile
Head
Demands
Makes
Does
Depends
Children
Place
Which
Decisions
Heed
Mean
Rear
Swept
Away
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
Very
America
Which
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
Robert Kennedy
Truth
Democracy
Truth Is
Communism
Men
Free
Fact
Free Men
Between
Persist
Essential
Difference
Search
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.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Man
World
Ourselves
Wrote
Make
Gentle
Tame
Years
Years Ago
Greeks
So Many Years
Us
Dedicate
Many
Let Us
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?
Robert Kennedy
Wealth
Men
Nation
Automation
Every
Increases
Our
Machines
Tell
Unparalleled
Gives
Make
Industry
Does
Provides
Modern
Wondrous
Where
Information
Poor
Capacity
Meaningful
Us
Production
Displace
Every Nation
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Robert Kennedy
Achievement
Progress
Will
National
Worldly
We Cannot
Neither
Find
Spirit
Economic
Purpose
Mere
Goods
Continuation
Nor
Personal
Endless
Cannot
Personal Satisfaction
Average
Product
Gross
Measure
Satisfaction
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
Robert Kennedy
Communism
Old
Tyranny
Men
State
Above
Individual
Pyramids
Aspirations
Stands
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.
Robert Kennedy
World
Opportunity
Wish
Difficult
Our
More
Perplexing
Times
Tranquil
Might
Us
Filled
Lived
Challenging
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.
Robert Kennedy
Together
Law
Men
Live
Chaos
Prohibited
Rules
We Cannot
Out
Tell
Civilization
Wrong
Know
Without
Enables
Glue
Permitted
Order
Cannot
Holds
Which
Us
Creates
Right
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Strength
Family
Peace
Unity
Civilization
Purposes
Primary
Family Life
Order
Certainly
Flourish
Guarantee
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Love
Justice
Cause
King
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
He
Between
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
His
Effort
Died
Human
Human Beings
To Love
Dedicated
Beings
Luther
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.
Robert Kennedy
Attitude
Truth
World
Welfare
Old
Nation
Young
Action
Every
Other
Security
Web
Small
Globe
Around
Affect
Itself
Which
Seamless
Large
Now
Every Nation
When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Education
Good
Opportunity
Country
Living
Good Life
Our
Mine
Strive
Promised
Something
Merely
Because
Came
America
Grind
Them
Bare
Yours
Nourished
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Robert Kennedy
Me
Man
People
Say
Destroy
Find
People Say
Ruthless
Shall
Him
Calling
Am
Who
In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.
Robert Kennedy
Fitness
Strong
Physical Fitness
Judgment
Nation
Physical
Excellence
Confident
Forms
Basic
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
Robert Kennedy
Man
Enemy
Law
Poor Man
Something
Taking
Looks
Him
Always
Friend
Poor
Away
The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
Robert Kennedy
Vote
Rights
Easiest
Grant
Right
The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Sports
Speak
World
Competition
Political
Language
Whatever
Differences
Religious
Athletes
Come
Knows
Same
Land
Racial
Lessons
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.
Robert Kennedy
Death
Destruction
Superior
National
Programs
Our
Broadcasting
Television
Missiles
Goods
Glorify
Sell
Children
Lake
Which
Product
Production
Gross
Grows
Nuclear
Nuclear Warheads
Violence
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