Robert Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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?”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

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

“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.”

“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.”