I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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