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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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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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What we need in the United States is not division what we need in the United States is not hatred what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.
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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.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'
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We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
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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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All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.
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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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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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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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I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
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The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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