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.
ROBERT KENNEDYIn your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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