I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDYYou 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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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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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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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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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