I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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.
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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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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.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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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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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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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?
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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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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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