GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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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 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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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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 dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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