Quotes of Robert F. Kennedy - somelinesforyou

“ 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 F. Kennedy

“ Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. [Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 910 1966] ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. [Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 910 1966] ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity; the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ We have one of the best solar potentials here in the United States in the world. In fact, we could power the entire U.S. energy grid from an area 75 miles by 75 miles in the desert Southwest. We're number one in the world in wind. North Dakota is the windiest place at sea level on Earth… ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike… ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ This is not about character assassination,... This is about questioning the ideology of a person who has continuously throughout her career made, really, a life's work of eroding and destroying the mission of the department she is now being named to lead. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Don't get mad, get even. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy
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