Acts of charity Quote by Robert Kennedy

“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.” quote by Robert Kennedy — Download Open image

“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.”

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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou…

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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…

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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life…

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President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such…

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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.…

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Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to…

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

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In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what…

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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

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Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an…

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One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no…

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People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms…

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Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

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There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

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Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our…

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U.S. commitment to NATO and our commitments our European partners is not an act of charity. It's not a gift that we give to…

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I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to…

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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to…

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In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

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The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

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