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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

A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Criticism Life Live Worth
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
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
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Alone Country Ourselves World
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Build Contribution Effort Judgment Order World
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
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
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
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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God Live Ourselves Response White

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.

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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.

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