What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDYWe know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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