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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.


Robert Wyatt

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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...
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