A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDYFew 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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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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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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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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 is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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