It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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But 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?
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All 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.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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The 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.
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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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