245 Quotes by Robert Kennedy

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troubling concern of our society is whether men of different races can sit together at a lunch counter.

In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.