Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDYPeople say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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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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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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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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