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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Robert Kennedy

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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
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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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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Fake Lying Recognition Truth
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Build Contribution Effort Judgment Order World
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
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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Dreams Myself Question Sight
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
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
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
ROBERT KENNEDY

Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth

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