Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abid... -Robert Kennedy

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

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Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy...
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war ...
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives....
We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to an...
Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with e...
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes....
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the...
Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not....
In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal co...
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, ...

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy....
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries....
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership...
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of ...
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society....
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own sufferi...
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day....
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere....
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in ...
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society....