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.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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