Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
ROBERT KENNEDYI think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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