New york Quotes by Robert Kennedy

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

— Robert Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

— Robert Kennedy

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

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

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

— Robert Kennedy