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 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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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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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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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