Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDYToo 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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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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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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