We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDYOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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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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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 has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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