Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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