Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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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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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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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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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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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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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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.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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