Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy

About Robert F. Kennedy:

Robert Francis was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, serving under his older brother, President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1968 election.
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The only sin is pride.

Robert F. Kennedy

Each time a person stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, they send a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a curr...

Robert F. Kennedy

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, ...

Robert F. Kennedy

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Robert F. Kennedy

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

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. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to...

Robert F. Kennedy

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 those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resista...

Robert F. Kennedy

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Robert F. Kennedy

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . ...

Robert F. Kennedy

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Robert F. Kennedy

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; ...

Robert F. Kennedy

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Robert F. Kennedy

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Robert F. Kennedy

Author Bio

  • NameRobert F. Kennedy
  • DescriptionAmerican politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
  • AliasesBobby Kennedy; RFK
  • BornNovember 20, 1925
  • DiedJune 6, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Officer; Lawyer; Writer
  • AwardsErnst Reuter Medal