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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

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.

Robert Kennedy
Men, Law, Land
Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Robert Kennedy
Believe, Government, Long
Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

Robert Kennedy
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Eulogy: Ted Kennedy's Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2009.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.

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

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

Robert Kennedy
Inspiring, Hands
"To seek a newer world".

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.

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

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

Robert Kennedy
Believe, Men, World
Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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.

Robert Kennedy
Dream, Honor, Swagger
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.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

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