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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Robert Kennedy

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

Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Goal Human Liberty Society Value
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
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
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance

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