If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
- Robert Kennedy - In Equality
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
- John F. Kennedy - In Equality
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy - In Forgiveness
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The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
- Eugene Kennedy - In Friendship
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
- John F. Kennedy - In History
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy - In History
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy - In History
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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy - In History
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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
- Edward Kennedy - In History
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy - In History
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
- Jacqueline Kennedy - In History
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
- Rose Kennedy - In Nature
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
- John F. Kennedy - In Nature
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy - In Patriotism
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy - In Peace
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- John F. Kennedy - In Politics
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Robert Kennedy - In Politics
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Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
- Edward Kennedy - In Politics
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy - In Technology
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy - In Technology
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy - In War
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy - In War
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy - In War
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