Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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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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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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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