This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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