black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Too 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 Kennedy

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Greatness Happiness Yourself
The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope Ideal Stand Time
Too 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 KENNEDY

Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Adventure Freedom Humanity Possible Separate Social
Few 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 KENNEDY

Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Act Evil Immortal See
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Believe Myself People Poverty

Too 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Too 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Kennedy Quotes