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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.

Robert Kennedy

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
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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Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Failure Fall Quit Yourself
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
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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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
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
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
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
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
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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Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
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
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Man Myself Question Sight
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
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
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water

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