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Portrait of Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

(1925–1979) Rugby Union Player

186 quotes in 1014 categories

He writes, "Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world." The quotes link freedom with social progress, saying they strengthen each other and that prejudice and intolerance must be challenged. They also call for taming humanity’s savageness, honoring ancient ideas, and recognizing that progress comes from questioning the status quo.

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Robert Kennedy was a rugby union player, best known for Alexis Rockman.

Quick Facts About Robert Kennedy

Born: August 14, 1925
Died: May 8, 1979
Profession: Rugby Union Player
Notable works: Alexis Rockman
Spouse: Helen Young

About Robert Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy, known as RFK, was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and then as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He and his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, is regarded as an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Criticism

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I'm tired of chasing people.

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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Hope

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“All of us might wish at times...”

Time

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Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

Funny

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Your life can be anything you want it to be.

Funny

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Change has its enemies.

Change

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If you never quit, youll never fail.

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

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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Hope

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I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

Inspirational

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Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

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After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

Essence

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Crime

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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected…

Criticism

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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Capitalism

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Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is…

Age

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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of…

Being loved

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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,…

Acts of charity

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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness…

Anti war

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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Country

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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision,…

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The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of…

Children

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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot…

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All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out…

Cafes

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If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is…

Amendments

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Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the…

Automation

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It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community,…

Children

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But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share…

Brother

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“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we…

Compassion

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Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet…

Adventure

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For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.…

Bombs

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It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up…

Acts of charity

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The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful…

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...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that…

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Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most…

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People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel…

Care

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States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently…

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Robert Kennedy by topic

Men (37) World (29) Time (21) Life (19) People (17) Freedom (17) Inspirational (16) Justice (15) Children (15) Politics (14) Law (14) Humans (14) Courage (14) Change (14) History (13) Love (12) Rights (10) Government (10)