We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf 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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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