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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.

Robert Kennedy

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Criminal Deserve Kind Society
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fake Lying Recognition Truth
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dignity Human Natural State
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
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 KENNEDY

Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing

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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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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