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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
Why
Never
See
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" The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Us
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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. "
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Diversity
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" 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. "
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Past
Children
" 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. "
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Society
True
" 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. "
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World
Racial
" 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. "
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Find
" I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses. "
Robert Kennedy
Always
Facts
Believe
" 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. "
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Us
World
Difficult
" 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. "
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Wisdom
Best
I Am
" 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
History
Greatness
Small
" Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' "
Robert Kennedy
Him
Boston
Father
" 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. "
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Compassion
Freedom
Honesty
" 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. "
Robert Kennedy
Color
City
Change
" 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. "
Robert Kennedy
Career
Money
Opportunity
" 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
Human
Leadership
People
" It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants. "
Robert Kennedy
People
American
Job
" 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
Black
God
What If
" 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. "
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Strength
Leadership
Law
" To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds. "
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Hearts
Logic
Men
" Now I can go back to being ruthless again. "
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Now
I Can
Back
" President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed. "
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Two
Country
History
" The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away. "
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Law
Man
Looks
" 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. "
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Life
Family
Unity
" 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. "
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Like
Think
Government
" 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. "
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Living
Loss
Man
" Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. "
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Defeated
Political
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