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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.

Robert Kennedy

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
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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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
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
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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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Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
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
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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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself

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