In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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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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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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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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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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