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 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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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