Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

Most popular Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

Justice delayed is democracy denied. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
— Robert F. Kennedy The Pursuit of Justice

justice

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
— Robert F. Kennedy

democracy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
— Robert F. Kennedy

failure

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
— Robert F. Kennedy

change progress

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
— Robert F. Kennedy
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
— Robert F. Kennedy

future

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
— Robert F. Kennedy
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. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
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.
— Robert F. Kennedy The Pursuit of Justice

extremism

If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the colour 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. - Robert F. Kennedy quote.
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the colour 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.
— Robert F. Kennedy

African-Americans civil rights movement equality