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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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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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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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 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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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
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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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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
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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 am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
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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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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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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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