Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDYTragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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.
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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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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