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.
ROBERT KENNEDYUltimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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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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