I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy

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

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

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

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

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