Quotes
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Remarks at the University of Southern California Convocation
Criticism is a characteristic of a committed population. But to be responsible and constructive, it must be accompanied by continued participation, by careful examination of the facts, and by consideration of the rights of others to speak
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Speech in Chicago
The more closely one looks at the cost and deployment of our crime prevention efforts, the more apparent it becomes that we have put too much responsibility at the end of the line, rather than at the beginning. Enforcement and correction can only do part of the job.
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Speech at the Kings County Democratic Dinner
We know that crime reaches its peak in the summer months, when young people are out of school and too often out of work as well. A summer job
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Speech in New York
We are impressed by the nature of our problem when we are confronted with the fact that almost half of the murderers in Death Row at Sing Sing are under twenty-one. And the number of arrests of youths under eighteen is increasing steadily.
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Statement Before Senate
The data coming to light now shows that we have done all too little to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society those who have once run afoul of the law enforcement
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In too many major communities of our country, organized crime has become big business. It knows no state lines. It drains off millions of dollars of our national wealth, infecting legitimate business, labor unions and even sports. Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It…
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
Organized crime is a national problem. The racketeer is not someone dressed in a black shirt, white tie and diamond stickpin, whose activities affect only a remote underworld circle. He is more likely to be outfitted in a gray flannel suit, and his influence is more likely to be as far-reaching as that of an…
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Speech in Chicago
We are doing an increasingly better job of using most of our assets in the effort to curb the enormous power of organized crime. But the effort has only begun. In 1961 and 1962 Congress granted us new statutory authority with which to act against the rackets. With bipartisan concern and support, we obtained new…
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Address Delivered to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates, San Francisco, California
Crime is not only a cause of economic waste, but far worse than that, it is a reproach to the moral pretensions of our society, and advertises to the world the gap between our pronouncements and our performance.
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Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
As attorney general, I found crime to be, with civil rights, one of our two most serious domestic problems. The crime rate rises by seven percent a year, there is a robbery every five minutes, an aggravated assault every three minutes, a car stolen every minute.
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Speech in Chicago
The financial cost of organized crime is not limited to the vast illicit profits of gambling or narcotics.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Crime, violence in the streets and the dissolution of families and personalities are not eliminated by calling them evil and blaming them on “some other” party. Nor are they eliminated by sloughing them off onto “some other” level of government. We begin by accepting the blame and the responsibility, not by displacing or disregarding them.…
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