Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDYThere are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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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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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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