Robert Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#achieve #dare #ever #fail #greatly

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. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#difficult #filled #lived #might #more

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? ↗

— Robert Kennedy

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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#go #god #heaven #inferior #lives

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#calling #destroy #find #him #i

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#arena #bodies #clearly #commit #enough

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#dedicate #gentle #greeks #let us #life

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#everything #people #time

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#freedom #hands #into #law #loser