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.
ROBERT KENNEDYAll 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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