Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDYBut 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?
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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.
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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You 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.
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I dream of things that are not 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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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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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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