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 There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to ev...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY Don't agonize. Organize.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old peop...
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY Don't agonize. Organize.
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to ev...
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY Don't agonize, organize.
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
FLORYNCE R. KENNDY So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically con...
RANDALL KENNEDY In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that ...
RANDALL KENNEDY As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've imme...
RANDALL KENNEDY Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or...
RANDALL KENNEDY I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac...
RANDALL KENNEDY The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome ...
RANDALL KENNEDY I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public ...
RANDALL KENNEDY The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, m...
RANDALL KENNEDY I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for yo...
RANDALL KENNEDY We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselv...
RANDALL KENNEDY As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining th...
RANDALL KENNEDY The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of th...
RANDALL KENNEDY Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the...
RANDALL KENNEDY In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale...
RANDALL KENNEDY Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genui...
RANDALL KENNEDY I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it persona...
RANDALL KENNEDY All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that...
RANDALL KENNEDY If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have t...
RANDALL KENNEDY Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
RANDALL KENNEDY In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
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 Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD 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 Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
EUGENE KENNEDY Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
DAN KENNEDY For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.
DAN KENNEDY Just out of curiosity,” she says, “after you wake up in the morning, do you admire yourself in t...
ELLE KENNEDY We shall build on.
On through the cynic
STUDDERT KENNEDY I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what...
ROSE KENNEDY I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to ma...
ROSE KENNEDY Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDY Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to ...
ANTHONY KENNEDY Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains ...
ROSE KENNEDY Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if ...
A.L. KENNEDY Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determine...
ROBERT KENNEDY It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, ...
ROSE KENNEDY Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consi...
ROBERT KENNEDY We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life h...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY Allison Janney is amazing, and Anna Faris was a revelation to me.
MIMI KENNEDY I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it.
MIMI KENNEDY Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,...
ROSE KENNEDY You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
GRAHAM KENNEDY We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.
EDWARD KENNEDY We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administr...
MARK KENNEDY The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local custo...
ROBERT KENNEDY We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can...
CHARLES KENNEDY Introspection! I hate it!
ETHEL KENNEDY My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDY Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actu...
RANDALL KENNEDY Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual res...
CHARLES KENNEDY The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
JACKIE KENNEDY In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; ...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT KENNEDY Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligatio...
ROBERT KENNEDY If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
JACKIE KENNEDY One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
JACKIE KENNEDY When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and...
ROSE KENNEDY Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.
MARK KENNEDY Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past...
CAROLINE KENNEDY One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily a...
ROBERT KENNEDY I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always re...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
CAROLINE KENNEDY When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
CAROLINE KENNEDY I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Change isn't easy, it takes time.
CAROLINE KENNEDY You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little b...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and la...
CAROLINE KENNEDY To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut i...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public ser...
CAROLINE KENNEDY After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY