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 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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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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 time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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