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.
ROBERT KENNEDYThere are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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