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.
ROBERT KENNEDYReligion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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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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All 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.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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