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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Robert Kennedy

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
ROBERT KENNEDY

Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
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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Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
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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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
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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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
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
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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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Hope One Liner
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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
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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Believe Myself People Poverty
In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Fulfillment Future Hands Lying Spirit World Yourself
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

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