Quotes
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
If we are going to win the present conflict with the Soviet Union, we can no longer support the exploitation of native people by Western nations.
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Address at the American Jewish Congress, New York City
It is the ideal of freedom which underlies our great concern for civil rights. Nations around the world look to us for leadership not merely by strength of arms but by the strength of our convictions. We not only want, but we need, the free exercise of rights by every American. We need the strength…
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
We believe that freedom has but one message though it speaks in many tongues.
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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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Address at the Seattle World’s Fair
We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor;
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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
In the light of a truly freed mind no prejudice can disguise itself as zeal, no bullying can masquerade as leadership, no pettiness can pose as importance.
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Statement on the Situation in Nicaragua
Not only the interests of the United States, but those of all the American Republics, are best served by free elections—free of fraud in both voting and registration, and above all free of violence and intimidation by either the government or its legal opponents.
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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 the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland
Our newspapers must be free to report every facet of American life for this is not only a freedom guaranteed to them but a guarantee of freedom for all Americans.
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