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Robert Francis Kennedy (20 November 1925 – 6 June 1968) was an American politician, Attorney General of the U.S. and Senator; he was the brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.
Top 20 Best Robert F. Kennedy Quotes:
Robert F. Kennedy Quotes
1. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. 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 which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
― Robert F. Kennedy
2. 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 which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.
― Robert F. Kennedy
3. All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.
― Robert F. Kennedy
4. 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
5. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
― Robert F. Kennedy
6. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
― Robert F. Kennedy
7. The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
― Robert F. Kennedy
8. Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.
― Robert F. Kennedy
9. 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
10. Don't get mad, get even.
― Robert F. Kennedy
11. The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.
― Robert F. Kennedy
12. There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
― Robert F. Kennedy
13. All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others — and that is not our intention. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all pf its people — whatever their race — and the demands that the world of immense and dizzying change that face us all.
― Robert F. Kennedy
14. 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
15. I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
― Robert F. Kennedy
16. Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.
― Robert F. Kennedy
17. The future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
― Robert F. Kennedy
18. 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. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile — family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head — all this depends on the decisions of government.
― Robert F. Kennedy
19. Exasperation over our struggle in Vietnam should not close our eyes to the fact that we could have other missile crises in the future—different kinds, no doubt, and under different circumstances. But if we are to be successful then, if we are going to preserve our own national security, we will need friends, we will need supporters, we will need countries that believe and respect us and will follow our leadership.
― Robert F. Kennedy
20. Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. And everyone here will ultimately be judged — will ultimately judge himself — on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.
― Robert F. Kennedy
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