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.
ROBERT KENNEDYWe know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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 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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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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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.
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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