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 KENNEDYThe future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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 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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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.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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