2 Posts found for Author: Robert F. Kennedy

Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, … [ Read more ]

Author: Robert F. Kennedy | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Politics & Public Policy

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills – against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to … [ Read more ]

Author: Robert F. Kennedy | Subject: Action | Accomplishment