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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. "
Robert Kennedy
Father
I Am
Become
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" In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. "
Robert Kennedy
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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. "
Robert Kennedy
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Life
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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. "
Robert Kennedy
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" 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
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Life
Education
" America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "
Robert Kennedy
America
Diversity
Man
" 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
Men
Us
Wealth
" The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking. "
Robert Kennedy
Face
Beginning
War
" 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
Through
Us
Thought
" 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. "
Robert Kennedy
Core
Law
Crime
" 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
Voting
Responsibility
Justice
" 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
Hero
Voice
Violence
" 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. "
Robert Kennedy
Which
Best
Flexible
" 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
Strong
Man
Feelings
" 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. "
Robert Kennedy
Justice
Family
Evidence
" Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them. "
Robert Kennedy
Today
Enough
Good
" The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments. "
Robert Kennedy
Decisions
Education
Conflict
" 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
I Am
Say
People
" 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
Better
Unions
Worthy
" 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
History
Freedom
" 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. "
Robert Kennedy
Understand
See
Minds
" 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
Living
Loss
Man
" 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
Too Much
Hypocrisy
Far
" 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
Wall
Understand
" 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
Pyramids
Communism
Men
" 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
Corruption
Believe
Crime
" 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
Respect
Committee
Me
" 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
Law
Weak
Government
" Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. "
Robert Kennedy
Word
Change
Enemies
" The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. "
Robert Kennedy
Ends
Does
Free
" 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
Me
Tell
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