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 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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, 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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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