Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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 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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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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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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.
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