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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

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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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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Believe Myself People Poverty
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
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
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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Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
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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Dreams Myself Question Sight
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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Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Children Greatness Man Potential Recognition Truth
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
If you never quit, youll never fail.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Failure Fall Quit Yourself
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
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Act Evil Immortal See
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
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
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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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Fake Lying Recognition Truth
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion

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