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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?
Robert Kennedy in
Dreams
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert Kennedy
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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.
Robert Kennedy in
Politics
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy in
Equality
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Robert Kennedy
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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.
Robert Kennedy
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert Kennedy
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
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