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.
ROBERT KENNEDYI think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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