Robert F. Kennedy Quotes on Resilience
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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.'
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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.
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
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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.