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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

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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
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
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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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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
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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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
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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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
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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Believe Myself People Poverty
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
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
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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Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
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

Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present

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