Tags Share In April 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights requesting an investigation into the 2023 murder of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán (known as “Tortuguita”), an environmental activist who was killed by police while peacefully protesting the construction of Atlanta’s “Cop City” facility. Speaking with…
Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.
The real problem of power, of the concentration of power, is not its existence, because we cannot wish it away. The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use—of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
It is necessary to mistrust personal power enough to provide for some restraints upon its use. This is the idea of political competition that underlies everything else in the American political system and the Constitution. Do not deprive a man of his capacity to act. Just be sure that he in turn is willing to…
In the United Nations we are striving to establish a rule of law instead of a rule of force. In that forum and elsewhere around the world our deeds will speak for us.
We are finding that it is not enough to say that justice should be done—or even to pass laws commanding that justice be done. Laws and speeches do not build scho
The law which governs us must be written in the statute books. But there are areas in which our guide is more moral than legal—more a part of the basic fabric of humanity than a rigid code—more a part of our beliefs than specific rules of conduct.
In our society, laws are administered to protect and expand individual freedom, not to compel individuals to follow the logic other men impose on them.
Leadership in Freedom depends on fidelity and persistence in those shaping beliefs—democracy, freedom, justice
We are dedicated to the proposition that liberty and law are inseparable; that we truly believe social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
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