Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...
Robert KennedyPeople are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. Thatโs why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we donโt make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. Theyโre hungry for leadership.
Robert KennedyYet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert KennedyThere 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 KennedyThe road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.
Robert Kennedy