black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Confusion Direction Religion Slave
Together, 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 KENNEDY

Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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
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
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope One Liner
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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
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?
ROBERT KENNEDY

God Live Ourselves Response White
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Myself Question Sight
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Greatness Happiness Yourself
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
ROBERT KENNEDY

Man Myself Question Sight

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Kennedy Quotes