Tag: Robert Kennedy
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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
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Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
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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
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In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness – of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
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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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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.
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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
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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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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports – golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
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