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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.

Robert Kennedy

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?
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Myself Question Sight
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
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope Ideal Stand Time
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
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 KENNEDY

Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope One Liner
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
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
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Beg Earn Grant Refusal
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Essence Personal Public Responsibility
A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Criticism Life Live Worth
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Confusion Direction Religion Slave
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance

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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