If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
ROBERT KENNEDYA life without criticism is not worth living.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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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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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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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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