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Letter "R" » Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes
«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?»
«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
| Keywords:
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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?»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
God
| Keywords:
Go To Heaven, inferior, look up, Negro, response, treated
«Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Change,
History
| Keywords:
bend, generation, History of, portion, small change, The History, The History of, total
«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.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Belief,
Conviction,
Danger,
Evil,
Extremes,
Injustice,
People
| Keywords:
extreme, extremist, extremists, intolerant, intolerant of, objectionable, opponents
«I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Dreams
«One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.»
«Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| Keywords:
greatly
«Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| Keywords:
centers, injustices, mightiest, ripples, sends, strikes, walls
«Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.»
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