I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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