I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our children ought to be out there on the water. This is what connects us, this is what connects humanity, this is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image