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.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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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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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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