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.
ROBERT KENNEDYUltimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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