Ted Kennedy Quotes

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

I don’t get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

Sometimes, when life moves along, you're presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.

If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.