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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
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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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
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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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
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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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Goal Human Liberty Society Value
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
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
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
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
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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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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

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