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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

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
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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Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
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
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
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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
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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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
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
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way

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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