I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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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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.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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