Robert Kennedy Quotations | Page 2

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.

I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.