Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDYLet us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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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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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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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 natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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