The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
ROBERT KENNEDYOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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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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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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