Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY
ROBERT KENNEDY
Robert Kennedy on change
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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.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy 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.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy 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.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy If you never quit, youll never fail.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy 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.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy 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 KennedyRobert Kennedy Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy 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.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy 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.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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