Quote #71

The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met. (Buffalo NY, 1-20-67)

More from Robert Kennedy

  1. 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.
  2. The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
  3. The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fear…
  4. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invok…
  5. The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
  6. 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…
  7. The Democratic Party...presents its case on a strong platform and strong candidates, on a proven record of past accomplishment, on the evid…
  8. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

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