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.
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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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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 immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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