Robert Kennedy Quotes

American - Politician November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968

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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.

Women, Men, Justice, Society, Law, Glory

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.

Hope, Time, Man, Down, Energy, Walls

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.

Hero, People, Violence, Voice, Martyr

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.

Man, Men, World, Loss, Prove, Dignity

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Democracy, Only, Us, Citizenship, Rights

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Men, Dream, Never, See, Why, Some

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.

Vote, Responsibility, Justice, Problem

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.

Evil, Dangerous, Say, They Say, Extreme

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

Men, Communism, Tyranny, Old, Pyramids

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Freedom, Man, Diversity, Heritage, Our

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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.

Freedom, Men, Power, Government, Speech

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.

Good, Better, Dignity, Only, Unions

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?

Men, Poor, Nation, Information, Wealth

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.

Leadership, Believe, People, Human, Make

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.

Honor, Rome, More, Citizenship, Citizen

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. - Robert Kennedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Wisdom, Live, Tragedy, Living, Tool

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. - Robert Kennedy

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Change, Progress, Nice, Enemies, Word

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Fitness, Strong, Excellence, Nation

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.

Young, Philosophy, Crime, Cheap, Among

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

Today, War, Anger, Energy, Control, Will

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. - Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Time, People, Everything, Against

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.

Responsibility, Justice, Law, Special

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.

Women, Hope, Great, Men, Communism, Only

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.

Community, Society, Law, True, Kind

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.

Freedom, War, Face, Beginning, World

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.

Live, Men, Together, Law, Chaos, Know

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