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.
ROBERT KENNEDYIndustrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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