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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
Politician
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Bobby Kennedy
RFK
Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy
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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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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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