135 Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy

"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves."

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

"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."

"The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness."

"Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future."

"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."

"Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."

"I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world."

"Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited."

"Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims."