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.
ROBERT KENNEDYProgress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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