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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.

Robert Kennedy

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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?
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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. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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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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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.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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 invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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