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.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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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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