Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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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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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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