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.
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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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