It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe natural state of a human being is dignity.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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 believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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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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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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