Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Enemies, Nice

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Poverty, Believe

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Change, Right

• Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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
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  You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Tags in Greatest, Making

• The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Prescribe, Propose

Robert F. Kennedy (32)

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

About

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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