Quotes
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Speech in the United States Senate
A revolution is coming—a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough—But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
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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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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 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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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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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 National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
No sector of the American economy, no group of Americans, has made greater contributions to our strength, our national prosperity, the health and amenity of our lives, than the American farmer
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
It is sometimes said that the decline in total net farm income is not so bad because more than 2 and 1/2 million farmers have left the land since World War I
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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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Statement on the Food Stamp Program before Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
When I was in Mississippi with the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, I saw conditions of extreme hunger. I saw people who eat only one meal a day or one meal every two days.
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