Stand for an Ideal ~ A Tiny Ripple Sends Forth...

QUOTATIONS

Senator Robert Kennedy 1966

January 2026

Sixty Years On ~ What On Earth Has Happened Within the Mindset of the Greater American People?

Each time a man stands up for an ideal,

or acts to improve the lot of others,

or strikes out against injustice,

he sends for a tiny ripple of Hope,

and crossing each other from a million

different centres of energy and daring,

those ripples build a current that can

sweep down the mightiest walls of

oppression and resistance.
— Robert Kennedy, 1966

Source

The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches Edited by Brian MacArthur The Fully revised & updated 1992 edition in 1999

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