It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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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 you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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 sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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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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