Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYYou 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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