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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

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Fulfillment Future Hands Lying Spirit World Yourself
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
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
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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Adventure Freedom Humanity Possible Separate Social
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
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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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
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
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
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Man Myself Question Sight

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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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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