I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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 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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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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 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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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