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.
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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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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 sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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