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.
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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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 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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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.
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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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