The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDYYou 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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 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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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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