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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Written by Robert Kennedy
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Written by Robert 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.
Written by Robert Kennedy
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.
Written by Robert Kennedy
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.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Written by Robert Kennedy
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Written by Robert Kennedy
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.
Written by Robert Kennedy
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?
Written by Robert Kennedy
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Written by Robert Kennedy
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Written by Robert Kennedy
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Written by Robert Kennedy
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Written by Robert Kennedy
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Every 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.
Written by Robert 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 that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Written by Robert Kennedy
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
Written by Robert Kennedy
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
Written by Robert Kennedy
I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.
Written by Robert Kennedy
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Written by Robert Kennedy
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.
Written by Robert Kennedy
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.
Written by Robert Kennedy
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Written by Robert Kennedy
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
Written by Robert Kennedy
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
Written by Robert Kennedy

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