Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
179
AUTHOR:
Robert Francis Kennedy (1925–68)
QUOTATION:
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
ATTRIBUTION:
Senator ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Day of Affirmation, address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966.—Congressional Record, June 6, 1966, vol. 112, p. 12430.
