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.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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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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