I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDYUltimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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He 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.
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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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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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