GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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