Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYEach 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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