The natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDYSend forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYToo much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYPunishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDYToo often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
ROBERT KENNEDYFew will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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 KENNEDYIndustrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
ROBERT KENNEDYUltimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDYPeople say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
ROBERT KENNEDYOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
ROBERT KENNEDYThere 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.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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 KENNEDYNations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDY