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 future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts -… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that… — 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
All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of… — 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
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet... — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we… — 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
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
