We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDYAll of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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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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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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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