Peace and Conflict
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Address on gun control
Tags Share This speech was delivered on May 27, 1968, by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. To learn more about our work to carry out his vision of a more just and peaceful world, read our latest thought leadership here. Click here for our President, Kerry Kennedy’s, statement regarding her brother Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential…
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Address at the University of Indiana
Tags Share Long ago it was said, “The time for taking a lesson from history is ever at hand for those that are wise.” The war in Vietnam is not yet consigned to history. The fighting and bloodshed continue. The bombing of North Vietnam is restricted; but that too continues. And the negotiations, toward which…
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Address at the Overseas Press Club
Tags Share Last night I sent the president the following telegram: Mr. President: First of all, let me say that I fervently hope that your new efforts for peace in Vietnam will succeed. Your decision regarding the presidency subordinates self to country and is truly magnanimous. I respectfully and earnestly request an opportunity to visit…
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Presidential campaign speech at Phoenix, Arizona
Tags Share If there is one overriding reality in this country, it is that we must resist any erosion of a sense of national decency. Make no mistake: Decency is at the heart of the matter—and at the heart of this campaign. Poverty is indecent. Illiteracy is indecent. The death or maiming of brave young…
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Speech at the Greek Theatre
Tags Share Surrounded as we are by a crisis in Vietnam, civil strife in our great cities, and a division among our people, which often erupt in dramatic forms, it is easy to overlook the most profound crisis of all: the unprecedented and perilous drift of American society away from some of its most treasured…
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Address at the University of Alabama
Tags Share We speak as citizens of the same nation, joined by a common history, heartened by common success, troubled by common concerns. And I have come here to Alabama to talk with you of the hope which binds us together as Americans; and to ask you for your help. For America’s successes were not…
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Address at University of Kansas
Tags Share I have seen these other Americans—I have seen children in Mississippi starving, their bodies so crippled by hunger; and their minds have been so destroyed for their whole life that they will never have no future. I have seen children in Mississippi—here in the United States, with a gross national product of eight…
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Address at Kansas State University
Tags Share I am…glad to come to the home state of a…Kansan who wrote, “If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vision and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better…
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Announcement of candidacy for President
Tags Share I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what…
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Illusions in the Aftermath of Tet
Tags Share The events of the last few weeks have demonstrated anew the truth of Lord Halifax’s dictum that although hope “is a very good company by the way…[it] is generally a wrong guide.” Our enemy, savagely striking at will across all of South Vietnam, has finally shattered the mask of official illusion with which…
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Address on Vietnam at the United States Senate
Tags Share Mr. President, I vote for this resolution because our fighting forces in Vietnam and elsewhere deserve the unstinting support of the American government and the American people. I do so in the understanding that, as Senator [John] Stennis [Mississippi] said yesterday: “It is not a blank check…If [the president] substantially enlarges or changes…
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The Goals of American Foreign Policy: Columbus Day Dinner
Tags Share The year 1492 symbolizes the three parts of the American experience: our past conquests, our present dangers, and the most spacious of our future hopes. At the same moment that men were flaunting danger to master a primitive continent, the civilization of the world was reaching one of its greatest moments. In the…
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