Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYSend forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYYou’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDYVictims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
ROBERT KENNEDYAll 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 KENNEDYBut 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 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 KENNEDYI believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhile free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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 KENNEDYNations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDYEach 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 KENNEDYHe tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf you never quit, youll never fail.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf 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