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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, serving under his older brother President John F. Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. Kennedy was a member of the Democratic Party and is seen as an icon of modern American liberalism.

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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.

Country, Leadership, Make, Selfish, Thinking, Turn

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.

Democracy, Idea, Ideas, Intolerant, Men, Trust

We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

Full, Government, Land, Law, Men, Reason

But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Hands, Lighten, Lying, Men, Qualities

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.

Aircraft, Book, Hospitals, Houses, Military, War

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.

Desire, Forces, Hope, Justice, Men, Passion

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Dare, Encouraging, Fail, Greatly, Inspirational, Success

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Free, Freedom, Liberty, Mean, Prescribe, Way

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.

Gratitude, Home, People, Poetry, Prose, Voice

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.

Acceptance, Appeal, Bear, Chance, Men, Passion

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

Ask, Dream, Innovation, Things, Why Not

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?

Ask, Dream, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way

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.

Moving, Journey, Essentials, Unless, Clearly, Road

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

Greater, Men, Peaceful, Rights, Struggle, Turbulence

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Community, Excellence, Long, Mere, Things

All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

Dizzying, Enough, Flexible, Justice For All, Men, Strong

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Dream, Dreams, Honor, Swagger, Wielders

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Success, Truth, People, Path, Lack

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Capitalism, Control, Corporate, Free Market, Government

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

Accounting, Children, Generation, Generations

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