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.
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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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 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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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