I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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.
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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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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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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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