We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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