The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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