Quote by Robert Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by wh

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. – Robert Kennedy

Other quotes by Robert Kennedy

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. – Robert Kennedy

Category:
Change
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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? – Robert Kennedy

Category:
God
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Ultimately, Americas answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. – Robert Kennedy

Category:
Freedom
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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. – Ed Miliband

Category:
Wisdom

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Wisdom

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. – Aeschylus

Category:
Wisdom

But I do think its important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books. – China Mieville

Category:
Wisdom

Random Quotes

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. – E. M. Cioran

Category:
Oppression

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. – Sue Kelly

Category:
environmental

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. – Robert Hall

Category:
War

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Time