But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
ROBERT KENNEDYI believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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 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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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