Author: Robert Kennedy

Quotes

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.

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 Kennedy

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

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

- Robert Kennedy

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

- 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.

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 Kennedy

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

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

- Robert Kennedy

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

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

- Robert Kennedy

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

- Robert Kennedy

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

- 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.

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.

- Robert Kennedy

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