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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Robert Kennedy

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Fulfillment Future Hands Lying Spirit World Yourself
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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Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
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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Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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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Adventure Freedom Humanity Possible Separate Social
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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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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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Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
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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Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present

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