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.
ROBERT KENNEDY
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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 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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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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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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