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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.

Robert Kennedy

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
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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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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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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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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 time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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