Robert Kennedy Quotes

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace. But I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

An oppressed people will always rise.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.