Quotes from Kerry Kennedy

Civil rights demonstration in Washington, DC, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to crowd, June 14, 1963 (Warren

Dream big and they just might come true, keep trying and never give up!

Nurture children with a book, it helps to give them confidence and opens up their world.

When it comes to my Uncle Jack, my father, or any other loved ones we've lost, I believe in honoring lives, not deaths.

There was no sense of burden, like, 'I now must carry on Robert Kennedy's unfinished work.' Absolutely not.

Chevron's failure to adhere to basic standards of decency undermines the credibility of our capitalist model and diminishes confidence that our judicial system can serve the poor as well as the rich.

I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.

Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.

My father believed young people are among our nation's most valuable resources, and so we should ensure that every child - including children and youth returning from the justice system - have access to the opportunities we would want for our own children.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.

I'm not the most organized person.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

It's obvious that China faces a range of demographic and economic difficulties stemming from its own population growth, and that the global community has a vested interest in avoiding the worst impacts of that growth.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

Elective office is one of many ways to serve the community and the country. It's one that I would consider at some point.

It's hard to have both parents involved in elective office at the same time.

While the One Child Policy has been effective in drastically reducing Chinese birth rates, the measures adopted in its name have required exhaustive, violent, insidious and systemic violations of human rights.

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never fought in a war they didn't win.

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

It's important to reach out to people who are marginalized.