Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
ROBERT KENNEDYJust 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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