Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

Robert F. Kennedy (24)

Birth:	20th November, 1925
Death:	6th June, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisors during his presidency.

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• Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?”

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Tags in Build

• People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Find, Destroy

• 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

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  Tags in Extreme, Evil, Dangerous

• Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Own, Freedom, Law, Men

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Criminal, Deserve, Community

• Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Tragedy, Live

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in World, Gentle, Man

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Task, Understand, Human

• I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Far, Struggle

• There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Why, Things, Ask, Never, Way, Went, Those

• Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Diversity, Human Rights, Hatred, Tolerance, Freedom

• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Change, Enemies, Nice

• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Evil, Poverty, Believe

• One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Against, People, Time, Everything

• Each time a person 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, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Injustice, Action, Hope

• 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?

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Heaven

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in City, Change, Right

• Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Tags in Now, Again

• 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

  Topics in History

  Tags in Change/Growth, Action

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Challenge, Opportunity

  Tags in World, Difficult, Times