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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Robert Kennedy

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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
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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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
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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Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
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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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
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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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
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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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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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God Live Ourselves Response White
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.
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Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
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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Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational

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