Robert Kennedy Quotes


When 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...


Citations

Kennedy, Robert F. "Remarks to the Cleveland City Club." 5 Apr. 1968, Cleveland, OH. Speech.

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This quotation was used by the Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 Campaign as: “We represent the majority of the people in Alabama who hate niggerism, Catholicism, Judaism, and all the isms of the whole world.” So said Robert Creel of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. He also said, “I like Barry Goldwater. He needs our help.” The second statement was made at a different time.


He was notorious for sexually abusing Hispanic women in California. He as assassinated. Most people believe that his murderer was Joaquin Murieta who was exercising “people’s justice.”


His reference was to ethnic Indians and Chinese living in Kenya and other countries of Africa. Asians are a minority group in African countries and the legally sanctioned discrimination against them is part of an ugly type of discrimination which still exists.


He was the first Black major News Anchor in France. The racist history of France has run to extremes. In many respects, and explicit in the French Constitution, France has been the most racially tolerant nation in Europe. However, there has always been a virulent racist minority and at times they have controlled the Government. During WWII, there were a very large group of racist Nazis who, under German occupation, collaborated and ran the Vichy government. At the time there was a substantial minority who had attained some political influence and were extremely nativist and racist against Muslims and Blacks.


West, a very articulate, personable and accomplished Tea Party Candidate had won one of the 2010 congressional races in Florida. After two years in office, his rhetoric was so negative, vituperative, hateful and obviously untrue that the voters turned him out.


Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
  • Born: November 20, 1925
  • Died: June 6, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Robert Francis Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism.