I'm deeply troubled by a narrow and cramped and perhaps even a mean-spirited view of the law that appears in some of your writings, ... It appears you did not fully appreciate the problem of discrimination in our society.


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ROBERT KENNEDY
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l...
JACKIE KENNEDY
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JACKIE KENNEDY
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
JACKIE KENNEDY
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
JACKIE KENNEDY
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie...
JACKIE KENNEDY
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da...
JACKIE KENNEDY
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor...
JACKIE KENNEDY
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
JACKIE KENNEDY
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
JACKIE KENNEDY
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
JACKIE KENNEDY
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ...
JACKIE KENNEDY
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin...
JACKIE KENNEDY
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al...
JACKIE KENNEDY
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
JACKIE KENNEDY
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACKIE KENNEDY
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
JACKIE KENNEDY
I want to live my life, not record it.
JACKIE KENNEDY
I am a woman above everything else.
JACKIE KENNEDY
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to li...
JACKIE KENNEDY
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have oft...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of governm...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cy...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our worl...
JACKIE KENNEDY
Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our he...
ROBERT KENNEDY
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDY
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or m...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that ge...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY