People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected… — 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
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as… — 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
