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

—Robert F. Kennedy

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About Robert F. Kennedy

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from...

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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

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.

—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

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 that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

—Robert F. Kennedy

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

—Lewis Mumford

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You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

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I am not against all wars—just whichever is current.

—Ken Gillespie

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

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