While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
ROBERT KENNEDYIndustrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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