The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
ROBERT KENNEDYYou’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Every 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.
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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.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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 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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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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