This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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 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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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