You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDYReligion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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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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Let 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.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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.
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