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.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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.
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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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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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