The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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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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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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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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