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Robert Kennedy

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Quotes by Robert Kennedy

""Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.""

- Robert Kennedy

Courage

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

- Robert Kennedy

Courage

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

- Robert Kennedy

Courage

"Some men see things as they are and ask why ... I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

- Robert Kennedy

Creativity

"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."

- Robert Kennedy

Leadership

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred… but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another."

- Robert Kennedy

Leadership

"Some men see things as they are and ask why … I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

- Robert Kennedy

Vision

"The lessons of competition are lessons for life."

- Robert Kennedy

Wisdom

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

- Robert Kennedy

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