The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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?
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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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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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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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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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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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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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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