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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

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
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance
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
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Believe Myself People Poverty
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
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Enemy Forgiveness Name
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
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?
ROBERT KENNEDY

God Live Ourselves Response White
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Confusion Direction Religion Slave
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
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time

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