The natural state of a human being is dignity.
ROBERT KENNEDYA life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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