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.
ROBERT KENNEDYVictims 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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