4 Robert F. Kennedy Quotes on Resilience

Robert F. Kennedy quotes on resilience

10. My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'

39. I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it. I thought it would be me.

40. I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

45. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.