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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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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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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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 society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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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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