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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.

Robert 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 KENNEDY

Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
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 KENNEDY

Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Criticism Life Live Worth
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dignity Human Natural State
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Man Myself Question Sight
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Confusion Direction Religion Slave

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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