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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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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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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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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