I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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