All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
Robert KennedyPunishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
Robert KennedyI believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
Robert KennedyThe future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
Robert KennedyWe 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.
Robert KennedyVirginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.
Robert Kennedy