Robert Kennedy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.”

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”

“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.”

“Now I can go back to being ruthless again.”

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.”

“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.”

“I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.”

“The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.”