Robert Kennedy Quotes

Don’t get mad, get even.

You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.

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

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.

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?

…the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, 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 the world which yields most painfully to change.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

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.

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

At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man…is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person’s benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.