I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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