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.
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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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