Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDYIt is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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