35 ordspråk av Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
[Because of] Barbour and his cronies, ... we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence. ... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and -- now -- Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
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All attempts at mutual education are important to help us grow. It widens our vision.
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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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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?
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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.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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I think it belongs to the family and we can get rid of it any way we want to.
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I think that all of us have an obligation, we have a responsibility. If we don't do it, nobody's going to do it. If educated people don't do it, nobody's going to do it.
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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.
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
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I'm going to be helping them out, like boarding the place up as soon as it is cleared.
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I'm tired of chasing people.
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I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask for a letter of recommendation. That doesn't happen at UMaine. Our faculty are genuine and sincere in their care for the students.
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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.
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In Maine, we can't afford that kind of duplication. We have a role to help other institutions in the system. The flagship has to be the leader.
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