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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

The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Goal Human Liberty Society Value
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
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
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
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
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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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
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
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
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
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

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