Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYToo often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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 think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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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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