Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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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 natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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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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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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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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