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.
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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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