American - Politician | November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968
In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.
Robert Kennedy
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The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
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Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
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But 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?
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We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.
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We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
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It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
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Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
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