Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
ROBERT KENNEDYSome men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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 dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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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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