Famous Quotes

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use, rather
than its irresponsible and indulgent use- how to make people of
power live for the public, rather than off the public."

"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the
censure of their colleagues, the wrath of 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."

"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest
idealism and love of country."

"Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make
revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when
despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the
forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed."
(Berkeley, Oct-22-1966)

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; 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 ... It is
from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human
history is thus 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 which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance." South Africa, 1966

"At the University of Natal in Durban, I was told the church to
which most of the white population belongs teaches apartheid as a
moral necessity. A questioner declared that few churches allow black
Africans to pray with the white because the Bible says that is the
way it should be, because God created Negroes to serve. "But suppose
God is black", I replied. "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?" There
was no answer. Only silence." (Article for LOOK Magazine following
visit to South Africa, 1966)[3]

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."
June 6th, 1968 (From the last speech he gave)

"Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws--but the
final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and
every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we
see the law flouted--when we tolerate what we know to be wrong--when
we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy,
or too frightened--when we fail to speak up and speak out--we strike
a blow against freedom and decency and justice." June 21, 1961
(ROBERT F. KENNEDY, attorney general, remarks before the Joint
Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-
Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, Chicago, Illinois)

Quotes by Robert Kennedy

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