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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Robert Kennedy

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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
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 KENNEDY

Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
ROBERT KENNEDY

Man Myself Question Sight
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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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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?
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Myself Question Sight
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fake Lying Recognition Truth
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World

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