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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.

Robert Kennedy

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
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Children Greatness Man Potential Recognition Truth
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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Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
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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God Live Ourselves Response White
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope Ideal Stand Time
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Accomplishment Assassination Violence
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Greatness Happiness Yourself

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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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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