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Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Robert Kennedy
Children, Taken, Passion
Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

Robert Kennedy
Marriage, Country, Children
Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Robert Kennedy
Life, Children, Truth
Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

Robert Kennedy
Children, Book, School
Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country. Alexander Smith once said, 'A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.' Let us continue to plant, and our children shall reap the harvest. That is our destiny as Democrats.

Robert Kennedy
Running, Country, Children
Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.

Robert Kennedy
Country, Children, Thinking

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.

Robert Kennedy
Children, Responsibility, Individual Effort
Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us.

Robert Kennedy
Children, Opportunity, Air

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

Robert Kennedy
Children, Generations, Accounting
Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

Robert Kennedy
Children, Views, Birth Control

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

Robert Kennedy
Children, Play, Gdp
Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Robert Kennedy
Family, Children, Struggle
Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman, Jeffrey Shulman (1988). “Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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