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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.

Robert Kennedy

A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Criticism Life Live Worth
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
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
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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
If you never quit, youll never fail.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Failure Fall Quit Yourself
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Account Industry Pollution Water
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 KENNEDY

God Live Ourselves Response White
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Children Greatness Man Potential Recognition Truth
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
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Act Evil Immortal See

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