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.
ROBERT KENNEDYNations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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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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