All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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