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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.

Robert Kennedy

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
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
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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God Live Ourselves Response White
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Build Contribution Effort Judgment Order World
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
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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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
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
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
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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Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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