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• The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

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  Life, Children, Truth

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiration

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• I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

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  Dream, Innovation, 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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  Men, Ideas, Democracy

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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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

  Change, Equality, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• If you never quit, youll never fail.

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  Never Quit, Quitting, Failing

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• We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

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  Powerful, Understanding, Mind

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• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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  Believe, Evil Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

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  Tiny, Ripple

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

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• A life without criticism is not worth living.

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  Criticism, Worth Living

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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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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  Men, Compassion, Color

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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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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  Political, Mind, Tasks

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

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  Brother, Winning, Purpose

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

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  4th Of July, Opportunity, Political

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

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  Failing, Achieve

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• Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.

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  Past, Rights, Long

  "America the Beautiful".

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• Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.

  Robert Kennedy

  Pain, Home, Opportunity

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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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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  Looks, World, Arms

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

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  Military, War, Book

  Robert F. Kennedy (2004). “The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now”

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• If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.

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  Keys, Doors, Darkness

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. 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.

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  Religious, Freedom, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership.

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  Country, Selfish, Thinking

  "Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2008.

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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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  Passion, Men, Justice

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

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  Men, Often Is, Mind

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Why Not, Might

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