Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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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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