Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies. Robert F. Kennedy More Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy More Quotes From Robert F. Kennedy There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. Robert F. Kennedy Each time someone 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 F. Kennedy Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. Robert F. Kennedy Don't get mad, get even. Robert F. Kennedy It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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 which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. Robert F. 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 F. Kennedy One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Robert F. Kennedy The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. Robert F. Kennedy The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. Robert F. Kennedy
