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 KENNEDYToo much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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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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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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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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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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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