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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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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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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.
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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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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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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
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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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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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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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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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