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.
ROBERT KENNEDYOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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