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 KENNEDYVictims 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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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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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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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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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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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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 natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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