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.
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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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