Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYA life without criticism is not worth living.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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