The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf 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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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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