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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.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance that men chance error in their search for the truth.
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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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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.
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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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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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It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
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I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.
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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
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Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.
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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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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 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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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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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