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 KENNEDYIn your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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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.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Victims 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.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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 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.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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