Quotes from Kerry Kennedy

We owe our children an environment in which they can flourish, and where law enforcement, the justice system, and society as offers them a fresh start, not a jail cell.

My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go to visit him at the Justice Department and take the tunnel over to the FBI building and watch the sharpshooters at practice.

My earliest memories are of visiting the justice department.

I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.

I come from a military family, where service is seen as a badge of honor.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their kids to good schools. They want something done about poverty.

Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.

Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

Well, I don't think any of the Republicans have expressed any interest in supporting the vision of Robert Kennedy at all. At least I haven't seen that.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights supports youth reentry projects because my father cared deeply about children and young people involved in the juvenile justice system, part of his focus while serving as attorney general.

There were times I should have been completely emotionally available to my kids and I wasn't there, even for reading a book with them or watching TV or tucking my daughter into bed.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops, and harvesting the food. They are the first to be aware of environmental damage that harms agricultural production.

In the RFK Center's Speak Truth to Power program, we are working with schools across the United States and in countries like Italy, Cambodia and Sweden to turn every student into a defender.

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

Ambien is one of the most prescribed pills in America. A lot of people take it every night or several times a week or several times a month in order to help them sleep. I'm just not one of those people. That's the perception of me. But that's not the reality.

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.