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?
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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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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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.
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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 dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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