It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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 enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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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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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 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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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