The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat 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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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.
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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 sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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