01c. 1944 ADBut suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
02c. 1944 ADI believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
03c. 1944 ADWe in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
04c. 1944 ADWhenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
05c. 1944 ADEverything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
06c. 1944 ADTragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADI am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
08c. 1944 ADOne can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
09c. 1944 ADThe ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
10c. 1944 ADSome men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
11c. 1944 ADWe must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
12c. 1944 ADWe know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
13c. 1944 ADAutomation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
14c. 1944 ADYesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
15c. 1944 ADIn my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADProgress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADWe have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
18c. 1944 ADI always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
19c. 1944 ADNo one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
20c. 1944 ADEvery society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADThose who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
22c. 1944 ADAmerica's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADUltimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADI can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.Robert Kennedy / quote ↗
