--- title: "12 States Quotes By Robert Kennedy" description: "12 States quotes by Robert Kennedy. Plus more from Robert Kennedy and more States sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/robert-kennedy-2083_dignity_the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-di_1822649.jpg" --- > [The natural state of a human being is dignity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-dignity/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/robert-kennedy-2083_dignity_the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-di_1822649.jpg) > [We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/we-in-government-have-begun-to-recognize-the-critical-work-which-must/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/293/robert-kennedy-2083_critical_we-in-government-have-begun-to-recognize_1292956.jpg) > [At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/at-the-heart-of-that-western-freedom-and-democracy-is-the-belief-that/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f82/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-that-western-freedom-and_2002849.jpg) > [At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/at-the-heart-of-western-freedom-and-democracy-is-the-belief-that-the/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e79/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-western-freedom-and-demo_2553400.jpg) > [What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/what-we-need-in-the-united-states-is-not-division-what-we-need-in-the-2/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/robert-kennedy-2083_black_what-we-need-in-the-united-states-is-not_3001873.jpg) > [ The \[next\] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-next-priority-for-change-the-first-element-of-a-new-politics-for/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/robert-kennedy-2083_change_the-next-priority-for-change-the-first-e_1428937.jpg) > [In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/in-my-judgment-the-slogan-black-power-and-what-has-been-associated/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-kennedy-2083_black_in-my-judgment-the-slogan-black-power-an_1976207.jpg) > [I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/i-think-we-can-end-the-divisions-within-the-united-states-what-i/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/robert-kennedy-2083_affluent_i-think-we-can-end-the-divisions-within_2792819.jpg) > [All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/all-do-not-develop-in-the-same-manner-or-at-the-same-pace-nations/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/robert-kennedy-2083_beats_all-do-not-develop-in-the-same-manner-or_1717735.jpg) > [States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceived-it-was-a-protection-of-the/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e1/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceiv_2568709.jpg) > [Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/virginia-states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceived-it-was-a/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_virginia-states-rights-as-our-forefather_2826029.jpg) > [Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/our-answer-is-the-world-s-hope-it-is-to-rely-on-youth-the-cruelties/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/robert-kennedy-2083_adventure_our-answer-is-the-world-s-hope-it-is-to_1696715.jpg) ## Other authors on States ## More by Robert Kennedy > [Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/wars-of-any-magnitude-release-powerful-social-and-economic-forces/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/if-freedom-makes-social-progress-possible-so-social-progress/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/goethe-tells-us-in-his-greatest-poem-that-faust-lost-the-liberty-of/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-intolerant-man-will-not-rely-on-persuasion-or-on-the-worth-of-the/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/let-us-dedicate-ourselves-to-what-the-greeks-wrote-so-many-years-ago/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/president-kennedy-s-election-was-such-an-enlargement-it-expanded/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/men-and-women-with-freed-minds-may-often-be-mistaken-but-they-are/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/prejudice-exists-and-probably-will-continue-to-but-we-have-tried-to/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) > [Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/too-much-and-too-long-we-seem-to-have-surrendered-community/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/in-the-final-analysis-poverty-is-a-condition-of-helplessness-of/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/we-know-that-we-cannot-live-together-without-rules-which-tell-us-what/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) > [Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/punishment-is-not-prevention-history-offers-cold-comfort-to-those-who/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) > [The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-travail-of-freedom-and-justice-is-not-easy-but-nothing-serious/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) > [The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-gross-national-product-measures-neither-our-wit-nor-our-courage/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) > [Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/our-future-may-lie-beyond-our-vision-but-it-is-not-completely-beyond/) [Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/#itemlist", "name": "12 States Quotes By Robert Kennedy", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The natural state of a human being is dignity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-dignity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/robert-kennedy-2083_dignity_the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-di_1822649.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/robert-kennedy-2083_dignity_the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-di_1822649.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/robert-kennedy-2083_dignity_the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-di_1822649.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The natural state of a human being is dignity.” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/we-in-government-have-begun-to-recognize-the-critical-work-which-must/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/293/robert-kennedy-2083_critical_we-in-government-have-begun-to-recognize_1292956.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/293/robert-kennedy-2083_critical_we-in-government-have-begun-to-recognize_1292956.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/293/robert-kennedy-2083_critical_we-in-government-have-begun-to-recognize_1292956.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/at-the-heart-of-that-western-freedom-and-democracy-is-the-belief-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f82/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-that-western-freedom-and_2002849.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f82/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-that-western-freedom-and_2002849.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f82/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-that-western-freedom-and_2002849.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/at-the-heart-of-western-freedom-and-democracy-is-the-belief-that-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e79/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-western-freedom-and-demo_2553400.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e79/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-western-freedom-and-demo_2553400.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e79/robert-kennedy-2083_abiding_at-the-heart-of-western-freedom-and-demo_2553400.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/what-we-need-in-the-united-states-is-not-division-what-we-need-in-the-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/robert-kennedy-2083_black_what-we-need-in-the-united-states-is-not_3001873.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/robert-kennedy-2083_black_what-we-need-in-the-united-states-is-not_3001873.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/robert-kennedy-2083_black_what-we-need-in-the-united-states-is-not_3001873.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/the-next-priority-for-change-the-first-element-of-a-new-politics-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/robert-kennedy-2083_change_the-next-priority-for-change-the-first-e_1428937.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/robert-kennedy-2083_change_the-next-priority-for-change-the-first-e_1428937.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/robert-kennedy-2083_change_the-next-priority-for-change-the-first-e_1428937.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In my judgment, the slogan \"black power\" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/in-my-judgment-the-slogan-black-power-and-what-has-been-associated/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-kennedy-2083_black_in-my-judgment-the-slogan-black-power-an_1976207.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-kennedy-2083_black_in-my-judgment-the-slogan-black-power-an_1976207.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-kennedy-2083_black_in-my-judgment-the-slogan-black-power-an_1976207.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In my judgment, the slogan \"black power\" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/i-think-we-can-end-the-divisions-within-the-united-states-what-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/robert-kennedy-2083_affluent_i-think-we-can-end-the-divisions-within_2792819.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/robert-kennedy-2083_affluent_i-think-we-can-end-the-divisions-within_2792819.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/robert-kennedy-2083_affluent_i-think-we-can-end-the-divisions-within_2792819.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/all-do-not-develop-in-the-same-manner-or-at-the-same-pace-nations/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/robert-kennedy-2083_beats_all-do-not-develop-in-the-same-manner-or_1717735.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/robert-kennedy-2083_beats_all-do-not-develop-in-the-same-manner-or_1717735.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/robert-kennedy-2083_beats_all-do-not-develop-in-the-same-manner-or_1717735.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . . The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceived-it-was-a-protection-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e1/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceiv_2568709.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e1/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceiv_2568709.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e1/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceiv_2568709.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/virginia-states-rights-as-our-forefathers-conceived-it-was-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_virginia-states-rights-as-our-forefather_2826029.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_virginia-states-rights-as-our-forefather_2826029.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/robert-kennedy-2083_betrayed_virginia-states-rights-as-our-forefather_2826029.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kennedy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/our-answer-is-the-world-s-hope-it-is-to-rely-on-youth-the-cruelties/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/robert-kennedy-2083_adventure_our-answer-is-the-world-s-hope-it-is-to_1696715.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/robert-kennedy-2083_adventure_our-answer-is-the-world-s-hope-it-is-to_1696715.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/robert-kennedy-2083_adventure_our-answer-is-the-world-s-hope-it-is-to_1696715.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly…” — Robert Kennedy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/", "name": "States Quotes by Robert Kennedy", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/robert-kennedy-2083_dignity_the-natural-state-of-a-human-being-is-di_1822649.jpg" }, "description": "12 States quotes by Robert Kennedy. Plus more from Robert Kennedy and more States sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "States", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Robert Kennedy", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/robert-kennedy/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```