Robert Kennedy Quotes

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Emancipation is a demand of civilization. All else is intrigue.

There is nobody on this planet who was ever liberated by an athlete or an entertainer.

The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact, changed the country and the world for the better in noticeable ways. His vision has made the world a more equal place, and if not equal, it has helped to ensure that minorities have a voice.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

The march to freedom is irreversible.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples

The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.