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.
ROBERT KENNEDYI believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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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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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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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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