Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDYI think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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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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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