Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you 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. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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