I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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 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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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You 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.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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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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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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