I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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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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