Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
