Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
ROBERT KENNEDYSend forth a tiny ripple of hope.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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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 immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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