Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past โ if indeed it ever existed โ when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.
Robert KennedyI believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
Robert KennedyOur answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...
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 KennedyI thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Robert Kennedy