What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDYWe 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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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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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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