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.
ROBERT KENNEDYVictims 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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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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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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 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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