Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYFear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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 KENNEDYWe can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery 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.
ROBERT KENNEDYTogether, 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 KENNEDYThe natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
ROBERT KENNEDYToo much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYMen and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDYIndustrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
ROBERT KENNEDYYou’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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 KENNEDYThe purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT KENNEDY