Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYIndustrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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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.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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