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.
ROBERT KENNEDYFew 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.
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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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