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.
ROBERT KENNEDYThis much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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?
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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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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