Robert F. Kennedy
Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.
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Poll: Remembering Bobby Kennedy
June 6th, 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's death. Robert F. Kennedy was the Attorney General of the U.S. during the John F. Kennedy administration, a popular and influential U.S. Senator in the 1960s, a candidate for President of the Unites States in 1968 (an election that Richard Nixon went on to win), and the eloquent voice of generations everywhere that hoped for civil rights instead of inequality, shared prosperity instead of poverty, and peace instead of war. On June 5th, 1968, five months before the Presidential election, and weeks after Martin Luther King was killed, Bobby Kennedy, at the age of forty-two, was assassinated. Which of the following Bobby Kennedy quotes, some heard in films about him or his brother, do you think has the most meaningful message today?
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Robert F. Kennedy
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. -
Robert F. Kennedy in CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain. -
John F. Kennedy and Robert F. 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 F. Kennedy in CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. -
John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. -
Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 with Tom Brokaw (2007)
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. -
Robert F. Kennedy in Bobby Kennedy for President (2018)
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do. -
Robert F. Kennedy in CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
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. -
Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy in CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
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 in Bobby (2006)
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. -
Robert F. Kennedy and Keenan Wynn
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice. -
Robert F. Kennedy
When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies... -
Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy in CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
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 that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -
Robert F. Kennedy
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
