Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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