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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?

Robert Kennedy

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
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
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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Children Greatness Man Potential Recognition Truth
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
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
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
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
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time
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
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
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
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

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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