Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYToo much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYAlways forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
ROBERT KENNEDYI think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDYTogether, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
ROBERT KENNEDYMen and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
ROBERT KENNEDYSome men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
ROBERT KENNEDYA life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDYPunishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDYAll of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
ROBERT KENNEDYTragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
ROBERT KENNEDY