What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
ROBERT KENNEDYHe tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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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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