1966
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Announcement of candidacy for President
I cannot stand aside from the contest that will decide our nation’s future and our children’s future.
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Address at University of Kansas
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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Address at University of Kansas
I think we here in this country, with the unselfish state that exists in the United States of America, I think we can do better here also.
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Exchange with Kern County sheriff
Tags Share Robert Kennedy: “How can you go arrest somebody if they haven’t violated the law?” Kern County sheriff: “They’re ready to violate the law.” Robert Kennedy: “Could I suggest in the interim period of time, in the luncheon period of time, that the sheriff and the district attorney read the constitution of the United…
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Television interview in the WTTG studios of the Metromedia Television Network
I think that we are also seeing a resurgence of extremism in the Northern communities. When we start to move in these areas, civil rights make some people uncomfortable, because things are not the same as they have always been.
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Television interview in the WTTG studios of the Metromedia Television Network
I believe that extremists of both the right and the left share certain characteristics. They are totally intolerant of the views of others and totally unwilling to engage in discussion. They don’t have to because they have a simple answer for every problem.
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Television interview in the WTTG studios of the Metromedia Television Network
There are overtones of violence to extremist movements, which I suppose is natural when one is unwilling to discuss his position.
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Television interview in the WTTG studios of the Metromedia Television Network
I think that the extremists of both the right and left can be identified by their inability or unwillingness to accept our system as the basic vehicle for social change, and their consequent lack of a program that we would call constructive.
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Address at the Cornell University Agricultural Leaders’ Forum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The word “rural” no longer means what it once did for us
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Statement Delivered Before U.S. Senate
We have a responsibility to the victims of crime and violence. It is a responsibility to think not only of our own convenience but of the tragedy of sudden death. It is a responsibility to put away childish things
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Senate Speech
For our legacy—to our children, to the next generation of political leaders in the United States—will be far more than what we leave within our boundaries. Its most important element will be the role and standing of the United States in the world— whether, in short, people will look to this country with hope or…
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Senate Speech
We are increasingly an island of affluence and privilege in a world of desperate poverty—
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