Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYI dream of things that are not and ask why not.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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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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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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