Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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 sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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