Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYMen 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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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.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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