Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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