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.
ROBERT KENNEDYUltimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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