I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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