Crime Quotes by Robert Kennedy

8 Crime quotes by Robert Kennedy

Kennedy’s eight short statements blend civil‑rights advocacy with a firm stance on law enforcement. They provide a succinct look at his political vision for justice.

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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

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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…

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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form…

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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…

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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of…

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For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.…

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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness…

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

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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou…

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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of…

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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…

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President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such…

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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated.…

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Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to…

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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.

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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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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what…

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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

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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 has been…

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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 devotion to…

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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither…

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