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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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One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
Robert Kennedy
Great
Creative
Age
Ideology
Experiment
Our
Statesmen
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
He
Because
Precisely
Preferred
Roosevelt
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
Robert Kennedy
World
Rest
States
Religious
Long-Term
Well
Process
Racial
Prejudice
United
United States
Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.
Robert Kennedy
Confusion
Crime
Young
Increase
Everything
Philosophy
Adult
Cheap
Juvenile
Racket
Organized
Cynicism
Tolerating
Among
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
Robert Kennedy
Freedom
Progress
Possible
Makes
Social
Social Progress
Strengthens
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
Robert Kennedy
Relationship
Justice
Law
Will
Men
Free
Society
Analysis
Give
Free Men
Between
Democratic
Democratic Society
Said
Ultimate
Subject
May
Form
Which
Eternal
Speculation
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Wisdom
Learning
Courage
Compassion
Country
National
Our
Everything
Tell
Neither
Worthwhile
About
Except
Wit
Devotion
Makes
Proud
Nor
America
American
Short
Whether
Which
Us
Product
Gross
Measures
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?
Robert Kennedy
Congress
Changes
President
Press
Make
Get
Anyway
Basic
Chance
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Man
Legal
Law
Challenge
Own
Society
Others
Those
Weaken
One-Man
Structure
Indispensable
He
Invite
Like
Another
Does
His
May
Regard
Which
Aspects
Disobey
Who
Whole
Livelihood
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
Robert Kennedy
Communism
Political
Thrive
Poverty
Programs
Progressive
Out
Must
Misery
Wipe
Discontent
Ultimately
Which
Defeated
It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.
Robert Kennedy
School
Build
Past
Deficiencies
Ways
One Thing
Find
Classrooms
Attempt
Open
Feed
Schools
Learn
Another
Still
Educational
Effects
Train
Children
Regardless
Race
Incentive
Teachers
Keep
Thing
Eliminate
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
Robert Kennedy
Father
Signs
Boston
Massachusetts
Him
Up
Irish
Grew
Even
Apply
Need
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.
Robert Kennedy
Rights
Too Much
Hypocrisy
Field
Too
Enough
Possibility
Has-Been
Easy
Civil
Civil Rights
Give
Call
Passage
Been
Legislation
Which
Far
Much
Speeches
We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.
Robert Kennedy
Freedom
Man
Together
Better
Own
Dimensions
Arbitrary
Distribute
Seek
Join
Economy
Know
Without
Truly
Conditions
Foresight
Labor
Land
Ingenuity
Produce
Workers
Interference
Use
Who
Businessmen
Many
Right
Competitive
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.
Robert Kennedy
Government
Law
Before
Weak
Find
Fair
Protect
Courts
Right
Treatment
When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.
Robert Kennedy
Me
Respect
Important
Increased
Our
Those
Some
About
Counsel
Developed
Leads
Look
Also
Courageous
Came
Caused
Senate
Did
Committee
Which
Newspapers
Us
Assisted
One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.
Robert Kennedy
Car
Hopeless
Summer
Easily
Bitter
Find
Wrapping
Trips
Scenic
New
Camping
America
Confident
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
Robert Kennedy
Impossible
Crimes
Circumstances
Vary
Prospects
Makes
Still
Motives
Formula
Sentence
Justly
Rehabilitation
Number
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
Robert Kennedy
Government
Leadership
Strength
Great
Law
Men
Our
Great Majority
Lawyers
Majority
Executives
Been
Provided
Chief
Trained
Store
Needed
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.
Robert Kennedy
Wisdom
Best
Responsibility
Difficult
Approach
Federal
Most
Judges
Am
Impressed
Task
Which
Sentencing
Deeply
Gravity
Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.
Robert Kennedy
Me
Youth
Women
Training
Opportunities
Opportunity
Men
Young
Deficiencies
Types
Rather
Prevention
Clear
Primarily
Employment
Concerned
Make
Unemployed
Which
Young Men
Them
Act
Help
Who
Keep
Suffer
Designed
When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.
Robert Kennedy
Freedom
Communism
Will
Judgment
Believe
Recession
Consider
Crises
Berlin
Significance
See
Record
Rather
True
Major
Historians
Century
Episode
View
Incident
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
Robert Kennedy
Men
Minds
Logic
Morality
Laws
Lead
Hearts
Founded
Extent
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.
Robert Kennedy
Man
Together
Moon
Men
Sit
Lunch
Society
Difficulties
Our
Immediately
Troubling
Counter
Concern
Scientists
Different
Whether
Placing
Races
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy
You
Struggle
Down
Nine
Seventh
Come
Survive
Children
To Survive
Far
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Robert Kennedy
Me
Thought
Worried
Would
Would-Be
About
Through
Never
He
Been
Jack
Get
After
Us
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Free
Way
Proposes
Does
Ends
Means
Prescribe
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