If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
ROBERT KENNEDYI believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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