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.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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 sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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