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.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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.
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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 society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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We 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.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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 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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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