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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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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
Lawyer
Military Officer
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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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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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 know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...
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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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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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I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City
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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
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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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GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play
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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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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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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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After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.
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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.
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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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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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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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