Robert Kennedy Long Quotations

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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 seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . . The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem...

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.