What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDYProgress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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Few 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.
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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.
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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