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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Robert Kennedy

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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Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
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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Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
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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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
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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God Live Ourselves Response White
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
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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Believe Myself People Poverty
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing

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