Ultimately, Americas answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. – Robert Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. – Robert Kennedy
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. – 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. – Robert Kennedy
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 Kennedy
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
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. – Robert Kennedy
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 Kennedy
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 Kennedy
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 Kennedy
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. – Robert Kennedy