The natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDYLet us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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