Bob Kerrey Quotes

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

What I am is an encourager. I encourage all who deserve freedom to fight for that. And if you can't win by yourself, then find other people to be in solidarity with.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

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

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Real living is living for others.

We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.