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.
ROBERT KENNEDYAlways forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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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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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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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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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. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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