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

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
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Criminal Deserve Kind Society
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Alone Country Ourselves World
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
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
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
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
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Beg Earn Grant Refusal
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope One Liner
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Goal Human Liberty Society Value
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
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
ROBERT KENNEDY

Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth

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