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 KENNEDYIt is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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