What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDYHe 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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 think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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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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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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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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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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