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The natural state of a human being is dignity.

Robert Kennedy

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
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
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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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
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
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
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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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
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
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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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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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Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
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
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
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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 believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
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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Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
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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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World

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