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Portrait of Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

(1925–1979) Rugby Union Player

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Robert Kennedy was a rugby union player, best known for Alexis Rockman.

Quick Facts About Robert Kennedy

Born: August 14, 1925
Died: May 8, 1979
Profession: Rugby Union Player
Notable works: Alexis Rockman
Spouse: Helen Young

About Robert Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy, known as RFK, was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and then as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He and his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, is regarded as an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy · Page 3

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Contribution

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In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.

Analysis

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The natural state of a human being is dignity.

Dignity

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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

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We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

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Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

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I believe as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Evil

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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

America

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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Fulfilment

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law…

Community

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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge…

Achievement

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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.

Age

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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what…

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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.

America

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Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

Communism

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The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity…

Freedom

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Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion…

Crime

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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral…

Battle

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In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably…

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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an…

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Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a…

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A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples…

Freedom

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The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our…

America

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The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of…

Beauty

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I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work…

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And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We…

Action

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

Citizenship

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My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

Birth

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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Accumulation

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There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or…

Civil rights

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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools…

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Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

Communication

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I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

Cities

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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build…

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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…

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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth…

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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Change

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I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what…

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[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time,…

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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

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Robert Kennedy by topic

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