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.
ROBERT KENNEDYAll 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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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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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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