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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?

Robert Kennedy

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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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