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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.

Robert Kennedy

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
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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Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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Adventure Freedom Humanity Possible Separate Social
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
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 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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Believe Myself People Poverty
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
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
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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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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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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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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