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.
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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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