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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.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
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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 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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.
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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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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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The Gross National Product measures everything except that which 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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I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
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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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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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