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 KENNEDYAll of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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.
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