Robert F Kennedy Quotes

• I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

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  Marlon Brando

  Kings   Thinking   Dust  

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• It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

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  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle   Winning   Generations  

  Naomi Wolf (2008). “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

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  Janis Ian

  Kings   Thinking   Years  

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• The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moving   Men   Talking  

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2011.

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• The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

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  Jeffrey Toobin

  Kings   Gun   Law  

  "Edward Snowden’s Real Impact" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2013.

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