A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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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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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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