In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.
Kerry Kennedy
Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.
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.
If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.
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.
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.
Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.
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 love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.
We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.
The result of being a Kennedy is that I have extraordinary opportunities that I wouldn't otherwise have.
I won't mince words: President Donald Trump's inauguration means it is more important than ever that Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights redouble its commitment to the full scope of our humanitarian and social justice mission.
The fact is, human rights victories are rarely won by powerful governments or well-armed militaries. More often than not, these battles are led by individuals and small groups of people determined to overcome wrong. Think King, Gandhi, Mandela.
Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength.
In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.
My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate in the political process.
In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.
I come from a military family, where service is seen as a badge of honor.
Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'
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.
The time of day when there was quiet and serenity was every night when we gathered in my parents' bedroom and knelt down together and prayed.
When people say there is a 'reason' for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not 'cheering up.' The fact is that those who suffer - and those who love them - are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.
When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.
I'm not the most organized person.
My earliest memories are of visiting the justice department.
At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.
Daddy was never ruthless but he was tough.
Nelson Mandela represents an enduring example of the human spirit and he proved for eternity that the ideals of democracy and human rights can overcome even the direst of circumstances.
We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.
I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where men were clearly favored over women, this was an atmosphere, a world, run by strong, determined, smart women in leadership, who had high expectations of the girls, and this tremendous sense of love and commitment to the wider world.
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.
I understood at a young age that administrations come and go, but laws stay. So I decided to become a lawyer in order to help create a more just and peaceful world, not just in a fleeting moment but in a way that will endure from one generation to the next.
In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.
The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.
When it comes to my Uncle Jack, my father, or any other loved ones we've lost, I believe in honoring lives, not deaths.
You don't need a passport to work on human rights.
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.
I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.
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.
It's important to reach out to people who are marginalized.
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.
So I think that having Donald Trump as president of our country, and also his impact around the world, would have left my father in dismay.
I loved that television show Mad Men because it really was a reminder of what reality was back then.
After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.
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.
I thought of running for office when I was in law school, but I wanted to work on human rights.
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.
I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.
I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.
