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.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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If 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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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