While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
Robert KennedyBut 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?
Robert KennedyWhen you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...
Robert KennedyGNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
Robert KennedyWhenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy...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