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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.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.
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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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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.
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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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[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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Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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 dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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