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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’

Robert Kennedy

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
ROBERT KENNEDY

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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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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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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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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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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