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.
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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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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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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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