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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.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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Massachusetts
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Robert Kennedy
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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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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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I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
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[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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